The habits of highly boring people | Chris Sauve | TEDxCarletonU
Chris Sauve is a fourth year business student studying accounting and minoring in computer science. He has represented Carleton at case competitions.
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Translator: Riaki Poništ Reviewer: Denise RQ I'm glad I got a little bit of laugh there. We're going to start today with a quote by Gustave Flaubert. He said, "Be boring and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." When I originally heard that quote, I thought it was a contradiction. It didn't make any sense to me that you could be boring and exciting, commonplace and original, all at the same time. But I thought more about it, and realized it wasn't about being a boring person. Boring people are unoriginal. They are unexciting. That's the definition. It was about doing boring things, and that, sometimes, we could do boring things, we could put structures in our lives that made us less exciting in some ways. But what they allowed...
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Translator: Riaki Poništ Reviewer: Denise RQ I'm glad I got a little bit of laugh there. We're going to start today with a quote by Gustave Flaubert. He said, "Be boring and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." When I originally heard that quote, I thought it was a contradiction. It didn't make any sense to me that you could be boring and exciting, commonplace and original, all at the same time. But I thought more about it, and realized it wasn't about being a boring person. Boring people are unoriginal. They are unexciting. That's the definition. It was about doing boring things, and that, sometimes, we could do boring things, we could put structures in our lives that made us less exciting in some ways. But what they allowed...
