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Alain de Botton on the Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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Alain de Botton: Lessons from a Biscuit Factory
04 min 01 secAlain de Botton, author of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, discusses lessons he learned from observing workers at a United Biscuits factory in the UK.
According to Botton, highly specialized jobs lead to a sense of aimlessness in many workers. "The problem of the modern world...is it becomes very, very hard to see the impacts that you have on anybody's life." -
Alain de Botton: Sexual Attraction at the Office
02 min 22 secAuthor Alain de Botton discusses the taboo of sexual relations between coworkers.
He draws comparisons between the Catholic Church’s stance on sex to the polices found at many places of work. "What the large corporation has to deny is the idea that sex might be more fun than work," says Botton. -
Alain de Botton Finds Meaning in the Daily Grind
02 min 32 secAuthor Alain de Botton says routine work allows us to impose order, provides us a distraction from thoughts of deaths and permits us to be something "slightly better than we manage to be in our day-to-day life."
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