Alain de Botton - 3 questions on life's purpose, legacy and source of happiness w/ Alain de Botton

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http://standstrong.tv/alain-de-botton-3-questions-on-lifes-purpose-legacy-and... :: Author of "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work," Alain de Botton discusses three Q's:

1. What makes you do what you do (purpose)?

2. What do you want to be remembered for (legacy)?

3. What is the #1 thing that makes you happy (source of happiness)?

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  • Is a shame that countrys like mine (Peru) doesnt care much about this questions. Everything here is just money, sex and more money. Such a waste of time for the human beings nowadays. And more dificult for me because Im young and many people think that Im too old fashioned.

    Alain is a true inspiration for me and I always share his thoughts to everyone even if they dont want to listening to me, I know that something has left on them.

  • @Jauckor Keep up the good fight brother! Just because you stand for something doesn't make you old-fashioned, it means you use your mind.

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  • All philosophers are so shy, it was why I really liked my a-level philosophy teachers, they seemed so much more thoughtful and understanding than the others. Philosophy should be compulsory in schools I think.

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  • project out all the time, project our pain, fear, dark side, inadequacies on to everyone else.. yeah people are goo at that,, esp english people..!

  • @chopper0 Alain de Botton is my oncle

  • @lagook This is what we are fightin for. Anyway, lately im trying to left people living just the way they are living because if they are happy like that, who am I for tell them what real happyness is?

  • @samuelsixvids No todos de hecho, tal vez -y eso espero- que sea solo el entorno o la sociedad que me envuelve. Abiertamente puedo decir que Lima en general es así, en provincia es muy distinto, pues ellos viven en armonía con la naturaleza. Aunque no todos, ciertamente. Pero dado que las mayorías definen las sociedades...

  • @Jauckor its not just your country my friend i have lived in a few and it is the same everywhere, continue to live and think. 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' Socrates

  • @Jauckor not true. im peruvian. 

  • @960random Good point. What is interesting is that in France Philosophy is compulsory.

  • @chopper0 Not sure how old he is but haha, glad he makes you think!

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