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Design Matters from the Archive: Alain de Botton

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

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The Velveteen Rabbit

You were born in zurich after your father was expelled from alexandria egypt. And you've described your childhood as one of financial ease and emotional deprivation. I made a vow that after forty i would never complain about my parents again, so i don't really want to complain about them. But look, they were brilliant people who had real trouble with their emotional life. All my work is trying to point towards a wiser way of living because i observed from very up close what happens when in a driven, energetic, otherwise intelligent people a their lives start rling out of control.

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