A Sociology course mate recently posted this video of TEDtalks on Facebook featuring Alain de Botton, a philosopher from UK. TED is an academic organization dedicated to "Ideas Worth Spreading", and they have invited many famous personalities to give talks to an by-invitation-only audience on global issues, entertainment, technology...blahblahblah.

To get to the point, in this video, Alain de Botton discusses candidly about why we are suffering from career anxiety, meritocracy, how envy stems from the sense of equality and espouses an alternative philosophy of success.

If you take just some time to view it, you'll be convinced to find your true value as a person and determine your own yardstick of success.

Very inspiring.

Some interesting excerpts from the video...

"Snobbery is a global phenomenon... What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are."

"The opposite of a snob is your mother."

"It'll be very unsual for anyone of you who would be envious of the Queen of England, even though she's much richer than anyone of you are, she has a very large house... the reason why we don't envy her is because she is too weird, simply too strange."