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I'm very keen to read this book, but somehow I feel that there's a high correlation of this book with the talk done by Alain De Botton under the topic TED Talk Kinder, Gentler Philosophy for Success. (I hope I'm not discounting the originality of what the author may have written) Could anyone please confirm this? Thanks
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Michael Harris
They'll definitely be covering a similar topic, but De Botton is coming from a humanities-centered perspective and rarely uses data. Frank will try to demonstrate the same conclusion empirically, I imagine, being an economics professor.
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