#2 - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton - the celebrated contemporary philosopher and writer - is a fantastic book about work. His language is eloquent, thoughtful and elaborate, his mind fresh like a spring morning.
I’ve to share my favorite paragraph that so well describes a very common sentiment about work and career:
We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we have gone and quite what we have amounted to. We confront our lost energies in the pathos of the retirement party.
