Arthur Brooks

Right.

It's... Business is just another vehicle for expressing who we are as people. You know, the whole idea of work-life balance is a huge problem because it suggests that your work is not part of your life. Right, right. It presumes alienation. Absolutely. It presumes self-objectification, which is a deeply problematic and sinful thing to do. That makes you homo economicus. That's no good.

It's... Business is just another vehicle for expressing who we are as people. You know, the whole idea of work-life balance is a huge problem because it suggests that your work is not part of your life. Right, right. It presumes alienation. Absolutely. It presumes self-objectification, which is a deeply problematic and sinful thing to do. That makes you homo economicus. That's no good.

It's... Business is just another vehicle for expressing who we are as people. You know, the whole idea of work-life balance is a huge problem because it suggests that your work is not part of your life. Right, right. It presumes alienation. Absolutely. It presumes self-objectification, which is a deeply problematic and sinful thing to do. That makes you homo economicus. That's no good.

Work-life balance is a problem, is the bottom line. So what I say to my students on the very first day— Yeah, it also implies that work isn't life. No, absolutely not.

Work-life balance is a problem, is the bottom line. So what I say to my students on the very first day— Yeah, it also implies that work isn't life. No, absolutely not.

Work-life balance is a problem, is the bottom line. So what I say to my students on the very first day— Yeah, it also implies that work isn't life. No, absolutely not.

Yeah. What's life? Leisure?

Yeah. What's life? Leisure?

Yeah. What's life? Leisure?

I'll take Joseph Pieper's argument that leisure is the basis of culture, but only when it's based in learning and contemplation.

I'll take Joseph Pieper's argument that leisure is the basis of culture, but only when it's based in learning and contemplation.

I'll take Joseph Pieper's argument that leisure is the basis of culture, but only when it's based in learning and contemplation.

No, no, I mean, I want work before the fall.

No, no, I mean, I want work before the fall.

No, no, I mean, I want work before the fall.

yeah right attend the garden right in the garden that's right and you discover that by discernment yeah and that's what you're teaching exactly what do they think of that well it's amazing so the first day of class i say look a bunch of you you want to start your own companies and your startup entrepreneurs and the rest of you idolize entrepreneurs because you're going to make your fortune working for companies other people have started etc etc that's great but it's trivial

yeah right attend the garden right in the garden that's right and you discover that by discernment yeah and that's what you're teaching exactly what do they think of that well it's amazing so the first day of class i say look a bunch of you you want to start your own companies and your startup entrepreneurs and the rest of you idolize entrepreneurs because you're going to make your fortune working for companies other people have started etc etc that's great but it's trivial

yeah right attend the garden right in the garden that's right and you discover that by discernment yeah and that's what you're teaching exactly what do they think of that well it's amazing so the first day of class i say look a bunch of you you want to start your own companies and your startup entrepreneurs and the rest of you idolize entrepreneurs because you're going to make your fortune working for companies other people have started etc etc that's great but it's trivial

Because the ultimate entrepreneurial experience is the enterprise of you and you're the founder. Start treating your life as a startup today. This is what we're going to do. What do startup entrepreneurs do? They're willing and able to take risk in exchange for the potential explosive rewards that come from it. And to understand- That's an adventure. That's an adventure.