“A striking number of us (that is, we who have yet to become who we are) are apt, in our private moments, to express our understanding of how the world could be altered for the better by picturing to ourselves various business we would like to start… The pleasing and all-consuming daydreams appear to spring from those very same aspects of our personalities which led us as children to delight in running a grocery store out of a corner of the kitchen or to open a hotel in a cardboard box in the garden- as though there was some innate and enduring human impulse to lend entrepreneurial form to certain of our deeply held enthusiasms and insights.” 

Savoring the last few words of Alain de Botton’s The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work.

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