Listen "Thinking about work - a discussion with Alain de Botton"
Episode Synopsis
Here he is, the philosopher king. Alain de Botton is the man that wrote philosophy books that sold like airport thrillers. He's sold millions of books reflecting on life, work and happiness.We share a wonderful discussion about what role work can fulfil in our lives, where education is going wrong and how we can use psychology to help diagnose the challenges of our problem colleagues.Alain's two new books from The School of Life are How to Get on With Your Colleagues and How to Think More EffectivelyYou can follow him on Twitter.School of Life has over 5m subscribers on YouTube.Sign up to the Make Work Better newsletter or check out the best ever episodes at the website.Eat Sleep Work Repeat is made and hosted by Bruce Daisley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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