I was tumbling down the rabbit hole of a Google search the other day, going from one link to the next, when I landed at Tara Hunt’s HorsePigCow blog. You might be familiar with Tara if you’re at all interested in social media, social marketing, social networks and other related social hoo-ha. Basically, Tara’s great. And she had a post the other day (and another great one the day after that) that I think will resonate with Leaving Academia readers, including those of you who are scratching your heads, thinking, “Social WHAT?”
Tara’s post included a link to a TED talk given by Alain de Botton, whom the philosophers among you will be familiar with. de Botton is speaking here about success, what is is and how to measure it. I felt genuine surprise to think that someone as successful as Alain de Botton–successful by my standard, or what I think I mean by success–cries into his proverbial pillow about how successful (or not) he is. His talk, I think, will resonate with those of you who are worried about the whole failure thing (which we’ve discussed before, but it’s worth discussing again).
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I haven’t seen the movie, but I heard on the radio that Anna Wintour frets in The September Issue that her siblings, both of whom work for nonprofits, believe that she isn’t doing anything socially useful with her life.
This is GREAT!
Thanks so much for posting this!