What My Dad Taught Me: 6 Unforgettable Life Lessons

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Hello dear friends and thank you for joining me for this new personal development video. Today, I will try to share my experience, share a number of things that I have been able to learn, and in particular six life lessons that were taught to me by my father. One of the objectives of Français Authentique is obviously to help you improve your French, but for those who wish, we provide content that is also there to help improve your lives.

In a previous video that you may have seen called " A thought for my dad ", I explained to you that I had lost my father on July 4, 2023, I explained how difficult it had been, etc., and I also shared a super beautiful text by Jean d'Ormesson. And I really want to take this opportunity to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your empathetic messages. Under this YouTube video, there were dozens and dozens of messages from people who encouraged me, who comforted me, and that really touched me a lot. So, thank you from the bottom of my heart for that. And in this video, I promised to share with you a number of things that he had taught me, and that's what we're going to do today.

My father had a strong character and very fixed ideas. He repeated the same things over and over again, the same basic teachings. Life experiences, life lessons, it works exactly like iran whatsapp number data learning languages, that is to say, you have to repeat, repeat, repeat things so that they are anchored. And that, my dad knew how to do very well. And the lessons that he repeated, repeated, repeated to me, well they are in me forever.

Let’s discover six lessons he taught me.

Lesson one: work hard.

My father accepted mistakes, even failure, but there was one thing that was unacceptable to him, it was the lack of work, it was laziness, not working enough. According to him, we had to compensate for the lack of skills, the lack of experience, the lack of knowledge with hard work. And I heard it so much that it really became second nature to me throughout my life, this sacralization of work. Sacralization means to make sacred. So, the fact of saying "work is sacred" has always been something very important to me.

Whether it was during my engineering studies or in my work as an employee in the automobile industry, or even when I started to create Français Authentique, these lessons of work and curiosity, because work is not only about doing, it is also about learning to do, well these lessons have stayed with me and I have tried to apply them and I continue to do so today.

My father himself was a very hard-working, self-taught person, so he was curious and learned a lot of things by himself, a bit like I tried to do later, both from a professional point of view, since he had different careers in his life, he changed jobs several times, and in his personal life, since he did his own gardening, he repaired his own car, he did all the DIY in the house himself, and that, thanks to two things: curiosity linked to the desire to learn and work. First lesson, work.

Second lesson: never lie.

My father was tough and demanding with us, with his children, my brother and me, but he was also understanding and a good listener. And he always rewarded and praised honesty, telling the truth, not lying, even when it was difficult to do. He did not tolerate lying because it is something that ruins trust, and I am the same. It has remained with me both in my personal life, family life, with my wife Céline, with my children, I cannot stand lying, but also in my professional life, and I think that is also one of the reasons why I had difficulty feeling good when I worked in the automobile industry, because at times there was a culture of lying that did not suit me. So the fact of not lying, of being honest, is a great principle, a great value that I try to instill in everyone in my family, but also in the entire Français Authentique team.

Third lesson: don't let them push you around.

My father probably exaggerated this teaching a little, and I myself adapted it a little, softened it a little over time. When I was little, he told me all the time that we should not let ourselves be pushed around, that the world we live in is hard, and that if we let ourselves be pushed around, others would take advantage of it, and we would become a victim of the wickedness of those around us. He told me that the environment we live in is like a jungle, etc.

Unfortunately, I only partly agree with this observation. My experience has shown me that when you are too nice, others try, or at least many try, to take advantage of it and see it as a weakness. So I have learned all my life not to let myself be pushed around, and it has rather served me in my paid job, since once again, some people tried to take advantage of the kindness of others, etc. So, the fact of not letting myself be pushed around, it rather served me and protected me in some ways, but it also created quite a few problems when I was a child, because I was a rather quarrelsome child, ultimately.