Thinking about work - a discussion with Alain de Botton

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

Management, Workplace Culture, Science, Work, Business, Culture, Social Sciences

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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 Effectively

You can follow him on Twitter.

School of Life has over 5m subscribers on YouTube.

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0:00.0	If you run a restaurant in London, you need to know about Square.
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0:06.7	It's payments, point of sale and reporting all in one.
0:10.1	It also connects your front and back of house, which you nail every order and Square's reporting feature can help you save hours on accounting every week.
0:18.0	Join at Square.com. Square, big in restaurants.
0:22.0	Square Up Europe Limited is authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic
0:26.1	Money Regulations 2011.
0:27.7	Registered reference number 9,000846. Hello, this is Eat Sleep Work Repeat. I'm Bruce Daley. It's a podcast about
0:45.5	making work better. Each week we talk to people who've either done research or
0:50.4	they've done investigations about improving our jobs.
0:54.0	All of the episodes are live on the website,
0:56.0	Eat Sleep Work Repeat.com.
0:58.0	Actually while you're online, while you've got a browser open,
1:01.0	here's one for you.
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1:38.7	new york based maybe you are I think it's unlikely but if you are new york. I'm doing some promotion for the forthcoming release of the U.S.
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