How It Works
Welcome to Know Your Ethos—your journey to discovering and living by your personal philosophy, grounded in the wisdom of Stoic principles. Here, we combine self-reflection with powerful AI-driven insights to help you build a life of purpose, resilience, and harmony. This guide explains each feature and how you can integrate it into your daily routine to align closer with your true self.
Step 1: Define Your Ethos
Begin your journey by establishing a foundation for your personal Ethos through our Know Your Ethos feature. Our interactive wizard guides you through a series of questions, inviting you to reflect on your ambitions, values, and characteristics. The process helps you identify and align with the Stoic virtues most important to you, producing a personalized Ethos statement that encompasses:
- Core Values: Discover the values that matter most to you, forming the basis of your daily actions.
- Virtues: Align yourself with key Stoic virtues like Wisdom, Courage, Temperance, and Justice.
- Characteristics: Define traits you aspire to embody, such as compassion, authenticity, and resilience.
- Ambitions and Dreams: Envision your ideal future, including both personal and professional aspirations.
- Regular Reflections: Identify areas in your life that require ongoing reflection to foster growth and understanding.
Your Ethos statement becomes a guiding light, keeping you grounded in your values and focused on meaningful pursuits.
Step 2: Daily Journaling
Next, capture the experiences and emotions of your daily life through Journaling. This feature is designed to give you a structured yet flexible space for reflection. Here’s how it works:
- Entry Text: Write freely about your day, expressing any thoughts, experiences, or emotions you encountered.
- Virtues and Feelings: Select from a list of virtues and emotions that resonate with your day’s events. This will allow you to recognize recurring patterns and connect them to your Ethos.
- Date/Time Logging: Automatically save your entries with date and time stamps to maintain an organized record.
Once you complete an entry, you have the option to Get AI Feedback. Our AI reads your Ethos and selected journal entries, providing encouragement, suggestions, and ways to align your actions closer with your Ethos. Whether it’s a single entry or a collection over time, the AI gives you insights to guide your stoic journey.
Step 3: Reflections on Life Events
Our Reflections feature offers a more comprehensive approach to introspection by allowing you to revisit and reflect on significant life events. In this space, you can:
- Title and Description: Give your reflection a title and describe the experience or insight gained from it.
- Track Life Events: Mark events as “Life Events” and add an age tag to contextualize important milestones or formative experiences.
- Timeline Summary: View your life events on a timeline for a clear, visual understanding of your journey and how it has shaped you.
Reflections are integrated into your Ethos, enriching it with meaningful context. You can also choose to Get AI Feedback for these reflections. Our AI uses stoic principles to offer suggestions and insights tailored to your personal reflections, providing you with new perspectives and tools for growth.
Step 4: Meditation Practice
Take a moment to ground yourself through Meditation. This feature generates personalized mindfulness meditations based on your Ethos, Journal entries, Reflections, Life Events, and previous meditation feedback. Here’s how it works:
- Personalized Meditation: Our AI crafts a guided meditation that aligns with your values, virtues, and life journey, incorporating a stoic affirmation or mantra.
- Record Date/Time: Track each meditation session to monitor consistency and build a routine.
- Feedback: After each meditation, you can provide feedback on your experience, helping the AI improve future meditations to better suit your needs.
Meditation allows you to create moments of mindfulness in your day, reinforcing your Ethos while cultivating peace, resilience, and clarity of mind.
Step 5: Receive AI Feedback
At Know Your Ethos, we harness the power of AI to help you grow in alignment with Stoic principles. Through journaling and reflection, you can request AI Feedback at any time. The AI analyzes your Ethos, along with your journal and reflection entries, to provide:
- Summaries: Capture the essence of your entries and reflections, identifying key insights and patterns.
- Encouragement: Receive positive reinforcement and stoic encouragement to keep you motivated and centered.
- Stoic Insights and Suggestions: Get personalized recommendations to help you live according to your Ethos, whether it’s improving specific virtues, embracing more mindful habits, or adopting a more balanced perspective.
The AI feedback acts as a coach, guiding you gently toward self-improvement and deeper alignment with your values.
Your Journey Begins Here
By following these steps, Know Your Ethos will help you uncover the power of a well-defined Ethos, making it easier to stay true to yourself even in challenging moments. Each feature is designed to bring you closer to the life you aspire to live, using Stoic philosophy as both a compass and a support system.
Are you ready to begin your journey of self-discovery and personal growth? Embrace the path to inner harmony and live with intention.