Alain de Botton
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36 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
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The success you've had solving some of these hard problems, if you were to like break it down into some cool components that you've learned, one of them is obsession that you've said.
Yeah.
What are the others?
And the other thing that comes through in this but also all of your work is just this idea that nothing is impossible.
Again, you know, how much 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 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 if you say to them
Do you want this?
Does this d would you buy this thing?
And then they go, Oh, actually no, I wouldn't you know so why are you making it for somebody else if if it's not got no resonance with you?
You know, careful.
Careful.
The you know, the the biggest business disasters are are people making stuff that they haven't asked themselves.
Would I really want this?
Yes.
What do you actually want?
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