Alain De Botton
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
What am I worth?
And the answer comes back from the parent's face.
And that answer is loaded with prejudice and bizarre stuff.
And after a certain age, you think, that happened to me in the past.
I can't let that continue.
At some point, I've got to become.
And by the way, we do this in love.
I mean, in love, most of us spend a good portion of our lives thinking, I'm not complete until I meet somebody else who's able to mirror for me
a good picture of who I am.
I won't tolerate myself until someone else can say, you're okay.
And until then, I'm not okay.
I give you power of attorney over my worth.
I give you the power to decide whether I'm a good person or a bad person.
Think about loneliness.
Of course.
But of course, that's not the history.
So let's get passionate towards the history.
Because we've come from a place where we take our school grades to our parents and go, what am I worth?
Am I a good person?
Maybe there are good evolutionary reasons why that's the case.