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The private journal presents the possibilities of exploring your inner world and your outer world.

Barbellion wrote in a Jourrnal of a Disappointed Man (1912),

“I can think of no more interesting volume than a detailed intimate, psychological history of my own life.”

Certainly this is the extreme of narcissism which one should avoid, but the exercise is one route along the journey to Knowing Thyself. When we understand ourselves, we start to understand others.