A kinder, gentler philosophy of success | Alain de Botton
http://www.ted.com Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes...
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For me they normally happen, these career crises,often, actually, on a Sunday evening,just as the sun is starting to set,and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my lifestarts to diverge so painfullythat I normally end up weeping into a pillow.I'm mentioning all this --I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem;you may think I'm wrong in this,but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuatedby career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew --about our lives, about our careers --comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living.It's perhaps harder than ever beforeto stay calm, to be free...
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For me they normally happen, these career crises,often, actually, on a Sunday evening,just as the sun is starting to set,and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my lifestarts to diverge so painfullythat I normally end up weeping into a pillow.I'm mentioning all this --I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem;you may think I'm wrong in this,but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuatedby career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew --about our lives, about our careers --comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living.It's perhaps harder than ever beforeto stay calm, to be free...
