Tag: meritocracy

• 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