Montaigne - Quit Rat Race And Enjoy Your Life (Even If You Make Less)

In this video we will be talking about 8 Ways to Quit Rat Race And Enjoy Your Life from the philosophy of Michel de Montaigne. Michel de Montaigne was a 16th-century French philosopher So here are 8 Ways to Quit Rat Race And Enjoy Your Life from the philosophy of Michel de Montaigne- 01. Build Your "Arrière-Boutique" 02. Stop Guarding Your Money 03. Lower the Stakes of Your Own Importance 04. Embrace Intellectual Humility 05. Travel Without a Destination 06. Practice Radical Presence 07. Seek Soul-Deep Connection 08. Confront your Mortality We hope you enjoyed watching the video and hope this video, from the philosophy of Montaigne, helps you to quit rat race and enjoy your life. Michel de Montaigne was a 16th-century French philosopher who defined ambition not as a virtue but as an unnatural "disease of the soul" because it makes people sacrifice the life they have right now for a future that might never even happen. In 1571, right on his 38th birthday, he walked into his office and permanently resigned from his position as a judge in the Bordeaux parliament. It was exactly the kind of role Renaissance men spent their whole lives networking, scheming, and stressing out to get. He quit, moved back to his family's estate in the French countryside, and set himself up in a stone tower on the property. He built a massive library there and had 54 quotes from ancient philosophers carved into the wooden beams of his ceiling. From that point on, he spent his time studying the only subject he actually wanted to understand: himself. He observed his own habits, flaws, and everyday routines, and wrote down his thoughts about them and he called these writings Essais—which comes from the French word meaning "to try" or "to attempt" and is of course where we get the English word ‘essay’. Narration/Audio Editing: Dan Mellins-Cohen https://www.danmellins.com Subscribe To Philosophies for Life https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp1mRTkVlqDnxz_9S0YD9YQ