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How would you describe yourself in three words?

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Alain de Botton Writer and philosopher; founder of The School of Life
Fear, anxiety, longing, love, art, beauty.
Recorded Charlotte Philby, My secret life, The Independent, 1 May 2009 source ↗

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Question Do you rely on inspiration or discipline to make work? Craft & work
It takes a combination of ways to do these things, more than discipline. It’s a way of life. It’s like diet or gymnastics. You can know all the gymnastic things, all the exercises. You can know all the diets, but if you don’t do the diets, if you don’t do the exercise, it won’t work. It’s the same if you have some rules, but you don’t live them. It doesn’t work.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Washington, D.C., 2 December 2007 source ↗
Question What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore? Time & hindsight
The first thing to recommend is that they don’t work in some place that they don’t like, that they don’t do things that they don’t like. That they look for what they really want to do and what kind of thing they want to be involved in, or if they want to go it alone by themselves, to find that.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 2 December 2007 source ↗

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