Alain de Botton on Success

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January 8, 2013

So 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.

Alain de Botton, in his July 2009 TED Talk about success.

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