Life Lessons Archives - Darius Foroux

Career Advice, Life Lessons, Productivity

If You Feel Like You Need A Break, Take One

July 1, 2019 No Comments

4 min read

You recharge your phone when it runs out of juice. You refill your gas tank when you’re running on empty.

But sometimes, you forget to do the same for your most precious possession: Your body (and the brain that’s inside of it).

Whether you love what you do, are in between jobs, or have a job you hate: You’re working. Living is also a job. A pretty tough one, actually. Just the act of getting up in the morning can be a daunting task. And I’m not even talking about all the responsibilities we have.

So why do you make your life even more challenging by not taking a vacation to recharge? I’m not talking about your weekends that are packed with activities, or holidays where you do more work than relax.

No, that type of “free time” only costs energy. I’m talking about resting with a very specific reason: To recharge your battery so you can get back to living a productive life.

Life Lessons

Never Underestimate The Impact Of A Rotten Apple

June 6, 2019 No Comments

3 min readWhat do you think is more likely to happen when a lazy person joins a highly productive team?

Option A: The lazy person gets inspired by the productive people and their positive mindset. The lazy person automatically gets elevated to their level.
Option B: The productive people in the team become lazy over time.

It can’t be scenario B, right?! That’s not how it works. The lazy person is by himself. There’s no way he can influence the whole group!

When the lazy person is surrounded by productive people, he’ll be inspired to do more work as well. That’s what most of us think will happen.

But in my experience, and from what I’ve learned from others, the opposite happens.

One negative person can easily destroys the group dynamic. So why do many of us believe that Option A will happen? It’s because you look at yourself.

Life Lessons, Philosophy

Marcus Aurelius: 3 Rules For Life

April 29, 2019 No Comments

4 min readHow does one live well? It’s a question that our fellow human beings have been pondering for centuries. Out of that simple question, many philosophies and religions have been born.

But no philosophy does a better job at explaining the ideas for living well in a practical way than Stoicism.

The Emperor-Philosopher Marcus Aurelius, once the most powerful man on earth, was also a practitioner of Stoicism. Marcus wrote a collection of thoughts, ideas, and rules for life in what was later published as Meditation.

He wrote the things in that book for his own use. He was practicing the philosophy of Stoicism. I read that in The Inner Citadel by Pierre Hadot, a book that analyzes Meditations. In that book, I also read that Marcus had 3 rules for life that are found throughout Meditations.

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