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How to Focus on the Right Things
There are a million things tugging at our focus these days, and a thousand ways to feel about each day’s vicissitudes. As luck would have it — or was it fate? — one of Medium’s beloved writers, Darius Foroux, has launched a weekly “Stoic Letter.” In the tradition of the great philosopher Seneca, Foroux tackles a new topic each week, and shares how the teachings of Stoicism can help us focus on what matters. He’ll be posting one every Friday.
As Foroux writes in his intro letter:
We all know social media makes us feel unworthy and depressed. We know we can’t buy our way to happiness. We also know that seeking pleasure turns us into slaves of our desires.
And yet, we fall for these traps every day.
What really matters to you? How can you focus on it every week, every day?
Yes, we could just keep limping through each wild 2020-flavored day and then congratulating ourselves on surviving. (Yes, by “we” I mean “me.”) Or, we could refocus our energies on what will really make our lives better, right now.
