1. Research (zetesis)
2. Thorough investigation (skepsis)
3. Reading (anagnosis)
4. Listening (akroasis)
5. Attention (prosoche)
6. Self-mastery (enkrateia)
7. Indifference to indifferent things.
8. Blogging.
List taken, except for #8, from Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life (Basil Blackwell, 1995), p. 84.