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Why Is Work so Boring?
- Published_at:2017-03-22
- Category:Education
- Channel:The School of Life
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- description: Many of us find our work rather boring and when we do, we tend to blame ourselves. But there are very large-scale reasons, rooted in history and economics, why certain sorts of modern work are both more lucrative and rather more boring than they might have been in the past. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/wVzLCS Join our mailing list: http://bit.ly/2e0TQNJ Or visit us in person at our London HQ https://goo.gl/7eyYsx FURTHER READING “One of the overriding reasons why modern work is so boring is that we keep having to do more or less the same thing every day. We have to be specialists, whereas we would – deep in our hearts – surely be so much more fulfilled if we could be wide-ranging, endlessly curious generalists…” You can read more on this and other subjects on our blog, here: https://goo.gl/6ynfx5 MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: https://goo.gl/ISqcDg Watch more films on CAPITALISM in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLcapitalism Do you speak a different language to English? Did you know you can submit Subtitles on all of our videos on YouTube? For instructions how to do this click here: https://goo.gl/oayTyw SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: GM films http://gmfilm.co.uk/ Martin Pickles http://martinpickles.com/
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