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Quality of Life,
why focusing on the Good life is good business
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Professor Bas Haring
Improving your quality of life by following the empty-hero's journey
Bas Haring is a thinker and an asker of questions, a writer and a speaker. In a clear and stimulating manner he aims to imbue science and philosophy with meaning for our lives. He does this by writing books, columns and making TV programs. Bas Haring is an endowed professor at Leiden University where he holds the chair for 'Public Understanding of Science'. His latest book has just been published: 'For a Successful Life' - a plea for unsuccessful living. He has previously written 'Cheese and the Theory of Evolution' and 'The Iron Will' - about the brain, consciousness and thinking machines.
Bas Haring makes the following comments about his latest book "For a Successful Life": It is almost inevitable that you want to be successful in your work and in your life. By why do you want this?
The road to success is a difficult one, and what will success actually bring you? Are we at the controls in our quest to realize our dreams, or are we the helpless victim of 'something in our head'? This book claims the latter. Moreover, it attempts to strike a blow for those who are unsuccessful. For those who live a life that leads nowhere, who leave nothing behind: no children, no thoughts, no books, nothing. The people who just enjoy life or maybe do nothing at all themselves. Maybe you should try it sometime.
Join us at the homeless shelter to experience this talk of professor Bas Haring to the fullest.
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