A few months ago, I posted a book review taken from the Wall Street Journal on Alain de Botton’s latest book, The Pleasures and Sorrow of Work. For the book, the author interviewed people from a variety of careers and closely examined the ideas behind one of the most crucial parts of our lives as human beings: our job, our vocation, or purpose. In this video below from TED, de Botton gives a very witty speech on these same ideas focusing in on failure and success and how we define these concepts. He’s an interesting speaker with a great sense of humor.