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EPISODE · Jun 24, 2026 · 5 MIN

What to Do About Being Clumsy

from The School of Life · host tscol

Being clumsy is one of the most humiliating of scenarios. We need to learn to make friends with our ‘inner idiot’. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/raxT7 Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/iQ9y6 FURTHER READING “Our clumsiness can feel like one of the most shameful things about us. We spill, fall over, drop, smash… Clumsiness violates our self-image as a competent grown-up. It introduces us to a figure we may for a long time have been very keen to escape from: the Inner Idiot. We are liable to hate our Inner Idiot from afar, with a grim face, and to try to deny its reality. But in our clumsy moments, we’re reminded that the Idiot is still there, prompting us to drop the phone in the toilet bowl and forget important people’s names at a party…” You can read more on this and other subjects here: https://goo.gl/hpqVuF MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on SELF in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLself SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ X: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Luiz Stockler https://www.luizstockler.com/ #TheSchoolOfLife Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being clumsy is one of the most humiliating of scenarios. We need to learn to make friends with our ‘inner idiot’. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/raxT7 Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/iQ9y6 FURTHER READING “Our clumsiness can feel like one of the most shameful things about us. We spill, fall over, drop, smash… Clumsiness violates our self-image as a competent grown-up. It introduces us to a figure we may for a long time have been very keen to escape from: the Inner Idiot. We are liable to hate our Inner Idiot from afar, with a grim face, and to try to deny its reality. But in our clumsy moments, we’re reminded that the Idiot is still there, prompting us to drop the phone in the toilet bowl and forget important people’s names at a party…” You can read more on this and other subjects here: https://goo.gl/hpqVuF MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on SELF in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLself SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ X: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Luiz Stockler https://www.luizstockler.com/ #TheSchoolOfLife Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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