Life Series - Success

In this post on Redefining Success in Life. Please watch inspiring talk Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success.




Reposting inspiring lines from the transcript. All credits to the presenter

People take things personally !!
And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally. They own their success. But they also own their failure.

What is Success ?Here's an insight that I've had about success. You can't be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can't have it all. You can't. So any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on, where the element of loss is. I think any wise life will accept, as I say, that there is going to be an element where we are not succeeding.

Redefine the Definition of Your SuccessSo what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas. and make sure that we own them, that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because 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 a journey, that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.....

Hope you enjoyed this talk !!!