A Kinder, Gentler Philosophy of Success"11/3/2017 In Alain de Botton's speech, he expresses that he believes that those who fail in this society deserve to have failed. His entire speech is centered around the idea that success is earned and deserved, just as failure is. In larger, more developed societies, the chances of failure are much higher, and therefore more crushing. This leads to considerably higher because people feel pressured to take responsibility all the time. However, he does not believe that failure is a representation of how lives as a whole. Moreover, de Botton explains that throughout history, people weren't viewed as being a loser. Rather, people just accepted that some went through unfortunate things because that was just how life worked. Today, however, we have this perspective that some people are "losers" because we have this idea that we now have more control over our lives than before. Overall, I was very interested in this Ted Talk, because it explained a viewpoint that I had not thought of before; his speech certainly presented a different idea about how we view people's situations, as well as how today's society is much different than that of previous years.
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