Brian Johnson traces daily self-reflection back to Pythagoras and the Stoics, then recommends reviewing each day to spot what worked, what didn't, and what to change. He reviews at the start of his day. The idea: treat your experiences as data and get a little better.
So when you have a plane crash day and it just didn't go the way you want, we need to black box, think it. We need to look at the day and literally study it and unpack it. This is an ancient idea. It's 2500 years old. Pythagoras analyzed every day. At the end of his day, Benjamin Franklin did the same thing. It's what Socrates and Plato and Aristotle and the Stoics taught as well. Not that complicated, but you got to move from theory to practice on it, and then to mastery. What went well, what needs work, what will you do differently? Frankly, I don't do it at the end of the day. I do it at the beginning, my day. But we want to use every day and its data to get better and don't waste bad days. Use that data, see how you can get a little bit better.
