Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
What actually matters to your happiness? Good friendships, work that you enjoy, reading books that make you think, walking in nature, working out, watching a good movie — you know this.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
They believed in being compassionate, but remaining cautious of another person’s energy. To a Stoic, their own sanity is more important than feeling someone else’s pain.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
Know what you can and cannot control! That’s the Stoic’s path to a happy life. If you set a high value on happiness, everything else must be valued less.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
That’s how you protect your mood: By not feeling responsible for how others feel. Focus on yourself and be the best person you can be. And if others need your help, you can be there for them.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
Around seven years ago, I decided that I was done with pointless entertainment and boredom. After years of going aimlessly through life, I just had enough of having no direction in life.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
Our job is not to preach our values. Our job is to execute our values in our own minds.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
Pick up The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow, which
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
We all need to be more conscious of how we spend our time. Most of us know this — we just don’t live it. We squander our time like it’s nothing.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
we watch TV shows we’re not even interested in just to “kill time.” Why kill something so precious? That’s what should really upset you. Not some insignificant message you read on Twitter from some person you don’t even know.