The Importance of Patience

Anne Frank wrote in her first entry on June 12, 1942. She regularly reviewed her writings to challenge and improve her own thinking. The list of people ancient and modern who practice the art of journaling is almost comically long but fascinatingly diverse. Among them are Oscar Wilde, Susan Sontag, Marcus Aurelius, Queen Victoria,. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Virginia Wolf, Joan Didion, Sean Green, Mary Chestnut, Brian Coppelman, Anais Nin, Franz Kafka, Martina Navratilova, and Ben Franklin.