Alain de Botton
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36 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
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Alain de Botton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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are you in love with this idea?
So many great businesses start precisely like this, that somebody thinks there's this thing I really want and need or that thrills me, and it sounds quite weird to everybody else, and the person just sticks with it and just has a hunch about it.
Just as many, many business failures are all about someone going, someone doing something, and then if you say to them,
Do you want this?
Would you buy this thing?
And then they go, actually, no, I wouldn't.
So why are you making it for somebody else if it's got no resonance with you?
You know, careful, careful.
The biggest business disasters are people making stuff that they haven't asked themselves, would I really want this?
Don't buy into someone else's narrative.
That's what you're doing by listening to the failure, whether it's absolute words coming out of someone's mouth saying, Well, you're no good.
I think you just have to own your narrative.
You are you in this world of many, many billions of people, you are completely unique because your personality belongs to you.
And don't try and change that.
Don't try and be the person that other people want you to be.
Be the person you are.
Uh.
I know that irrespective of background, you have to work hard.
Really, really fucking hard.
When you think back over the last ten years of your life and the
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