A new way to look at success

Sometimes you find yourself trying hard but somehow not making much headway. Or you believe that you are making good progress but later realize that you have been going round in circles. Usually it is with jobs but can be in all other arenas of life as well. Others seem to have it a lot easier or perhaps they get along better because they deserve it more? If you have ever felt this way then this video will feel like a balm for the bruises. The speaker, Alain de Botton, encourages us to find the meaning of "success" for ourselves. No big secrets are revealed but I like the very rational yet humane way he gets his point across to the audience. There is also a bit of clever humour in some of his ironic remarks.






Do this simple exercise to practice the vocabulary of the speech.