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A story about happiness, passion, vision and purpose

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Wilko van de Kamp
Mar 21, 2018
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As a Western society, we’re obsessed with the concept of happiness. How happy are you, really? This video shares a short story about happiness at work:

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My latest book The Freedom Project: Happiness is really a book about work. Whether you have a job (employees) or own a job (entrepreneurs), for most people work does not equate to happiness. That’s why this book is an unusual book about work. And that’s why you’ll want a copy of it – because in the end, everybody wants happiness.

The Freedom Project: Happiness shares how travel is an appetizer of true freedom. In this book Wilko van de Kamp reveals how he:

  • climbed the corporate ladder and built a successful career.

  • despite his “success”, felt empty and unhappy inside: a corporate cubicle job did not bring happiness.

  • quit his job to start his own business, only to see it go to zero and (almost) hit bankruptcy.

  • discovered happiness wasn’t about being an employee or an entrepreneur: unhappiness exists on both sides of that often de…

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