De Botton, an accomplished author who’s taken on subjects ranging from architecture and love to Proust, status and travel, here looks at 10 examples of work in contemporary society, to explain both the work itself and how it fits into the larger context of how we live. This is the idea that suffuses “ The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work,” published in April in the U.K. A self-described secularist, de Botton pointed out that “we live in a society where we worship ourselves, and we’ve lost the habit of worshipping something transcendent.” (In another video, he also points out the importance of the idea of the Sabbath – to help us understand that we “didn’t create the world so lay down your tools and give it a rest.”) Without that transcendence, and with that self-worship, our work and our life becomes all about us. But there was another statement in that video that grabbed my attention.
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