Tag: career

• Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success (TED)

  

  … it’s bad enough not getting what you want. But it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn’t in fact what you wanted all along.

  valsaksornchai

  September 14, 2014

  Life, Psychology, Talks

  Alain de botton, anxiety, career, career crisis, crisis, envy, failure, Ferrari, greed, hierarchy, hope, human, job, judgment, loser, materialism, meritocracy, newspaper, ownership, respect, rewards, snob, snobbery, success, TED, time, tragedy

• Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career (TEDx)

  

  One of, if not the most, memorable TED talks I’ve ever watched (4 times as of 26/12/14):

  valsaksornchai

  January 26, 2014

  Economics, Life, Talks

  accomplishment, Canada, career, desire, dream, drive, Economics, economist, excuses, Fear, genius, great, interest, Larry Smith, Life, madness, marriage, parent, Passion, spouse, talks, TEDx, University of Waterloo, work