The morning rehearsal and the evening audit.
Marcus opens Book Five by talking himself out of bed. Seneca describes lying in the dark going over the day, and reports it makes sleep better, not worse.
This is the answer to what a Stoic actually does on a Tuesday, and it is two short sessions rather than a discipline of hours. The morning is praemeditatio: name the interference before it arrives — you will meet the ungrateful, the arrogant, the disloyal — so that it lands as expected rather than as an insult. The evening review is older than Stoicism; Seneca credits it to Quintus Sextius and describes conducting it nightly, examining the day's conduct as a magistrate would, without either flattery or self-attack. Modern Stoic Week hands people the same two exercises in almost the same order.
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