In the TED talk by Alain de Botton, he discussed how people deal with failure and success. A main point of Botton’s talk was who was and wasn’t a loser. Also, how no matter what, some people are more fortunate than others and therefore, those people will have an easier time succeeding. Some bad people will, unfortunately, make it to the top, and good people will be forced to stay at the bottom due to accidents and other things out of the control of anyone. I totally agree with this. In the later part of his talk, a part that stuck with me was when he spoke about how people should have goals that are specific to that individual person, and not what the people around them are trying to achieve. This way, the goals the individual people set will be feasible, and will lessen the failure a person faces. Botton connects all of his points to tragedy by talking about how in tragedy, people do not just watch people suffer, but they sympathize with them for their suffering. An example he uses to tie in tragedy with his talk is Hamlet. Hamlet lost a lot in his story, but because the audience sympathizes with him, they do not refer to him as a loser.
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