As Alain de Botton delivered his TED Talk, he not only discussed his ideas about success and failure, but addressed tragedy briefly as well. De Botton's main argument about success is that you have to create your own standards and definition of what you want in life in order to be successful. The society we live in today not only tells us we can do anything we work our hardest at, but also expects us to fail. With these conflicting messages, it often leads to a depression when we do not reach goals which often are just out of our reach. We often sometimes view those who do not meet the goals expected as "losers." De Botton addresses tragedy in this talk as well when he addresses how society responds to tragedy in real life. We see newspapers with articles about tragedies, but instead of putting ourselves into the shoes of the people experiencing the tragedy, we look only at the tragic situation the way it is. However, when we think of characters like Hamlet, we do not view him as a loser per say, but we do see how tragedy affects his life.
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