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#118: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton

The Tim Ferriss Show

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You Know, It's Before Your Bowel Cancer

i think that ambition can be a wonderful tool, but it's a terrible master. And the future may not come, as we know exactly. We're very much at the mercy of fortune. Fortune can do anything with us. You only need to tap us or hit us in slightly the wrong place and we are done for. The kind of levels of tragedy that can be yo, now, you only, you have to push us a little bit,. It could always get so much worse. So we we do have to appreciate every day that goes by without a major disaster.

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