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The School of Life — 482 episodes

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PHILOSOPHY - Soren Kierkegaard

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Why We Should Draw More (and Photograph Less)

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Why Design Matters

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Why Are Small Pleasures So Easily Overlooked, and Why Are They Essential?

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Managing your Mood: Tips for Staying Present | The School of Life

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12 Questions to Evaluate your Parents

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The Ancient Origin of Cancellation

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On Feeling Obliged

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Kierkegaard on Love

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Empty Chair Therapy: Heal Your Past, Improve Your Future

11

We Are Coming to Los Angeles

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POLITICAL THEORY - Niccolò Machiavelli

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How Keeping a Diary Can Save You

14

First World Problems

15

Why People Have Affairs

16

Getting Better at Picking Lovers

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PHILOSOPHY - Thomas Aquinas

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Why Work is Easier Than Love

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Student Philosopher: Plato's Ladder of Love

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Work-Life Balance

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POLITICAL THEORY - John Locke

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The Meaning of Life - in 60 Seconds

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11th Century; Love and Sex

24

Being a Female Philosophy Student

25

7 Secrets of Therapy

26

Why Do People Sabotage Their Own Success?

27

Losers and Tragic Heroes

28

The Best Offices in the World Do This...

29

People not to fall in love with: a checklist

30

The Problems of Being Very Beautiful

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Freud's Oedipus Complex Can IMPROVE Your Sex Life

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How to Find Out What You Really Really Think and Why...

33

In Praise of Hugs

34

The Secret Book to Win Friends and Influence People

35

The Fear of Intimacy

36

Why Do Emotionally Immature Offices Exhaust Us? Even When the Work Is Fine?

37

SOCIOLOGY - Theodor Adorno

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How to Stop Getting TRIGGERED Forever

39

How All Meanness Is Inherited

40

The Impact of Anger on Young Children

41

What Self-Esteem Is

42

Anxious and Avoidant couples and their Phones

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The Avoidant Partner with the Power to Drive You Mad

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LITERATURE - Marcel Proust

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SOCIOLOGY - Émile Durkheim

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Why It Can Take Us So Long to Understand How Unwell We Are

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Beauty Is NOT in the Eyes of the Beholder

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Your Two Options in Love After a Bad Childhood

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EASTERN PHILOSOPHY: Wu Wei

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Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time Audiobook

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The Weakness of Strength

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HISTORY OF IDEAS - French & English Gardens

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Paris: The School of Life

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EASTERN PHILOSOPHY - The Love of Rocks

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Is Human Evolution still Occurring?

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What Is Your Partner Really Thinking?

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LITERATURE - C. P. Cavafy

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PLATO ON: The Forms

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Why We Always Feel Bad and Guilty

60

Emotional Technology

61

In Praise of The Quiet Life

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People Pleasers in Relationships

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ART/ARCHITECTURE - Mark Rothko

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ART/ARCHITECTURE - Andrea Palladio

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The Uses of Envy

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Why You Should Get Married Now

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HISTORY OF IDEAS - Manners

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The Horrors of Parents

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Overcoming Negative Thought Patterns to Find Joy

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The Horrors of Children

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How to 'Grow' - The Hard Truth About Growth

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How to Make a Decision

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ART/ARCHITECTURE – Dieter Rams

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How to Use Drugs

75

The Importance of Being Single

76

A Sure Way to Get Over Your Ex (This Will Surprise You) #animation #theschooloflife #relationship

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A Dark Way to Predict what might happen in your relationship

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EASTERN PHILOSOPHY - Kintsugi

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The Most Romantic Thing You Can Ever Say to Someone

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The Importance of Good Sex #theschooloflife #animation #relationship

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Why Parents Bully Their Children

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LITERATURE - Edward Gibbon

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LITERATURE: Leo Tolstoy

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How to Get Less Defensive in Relationships

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Why We Love to Blame Our Partners

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24 hours as an English Farmer

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When People Turn Down Love

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Why You Need to Have a Proper Adolescence

89

24 Hours As a Cattle Herder in Cameroon

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POP CULTURE: Mark Zuckerberg's T-shirts

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Wisdom

92

POP CULTURE: When and Why We Cry In Films

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The Appeal of Rescuing Other People

94

Burke on: The Sublime

95

The Sexual Fantasies of Others

96

The Sanity of 'Madness'

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LITERATURE - Goethe

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Panic Attacks

99

What is emotional intelligence #animation #theschooloflife #emotionalintelligence

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Van Gogh As a Guide to Confidence

101

Economic Demand

102

Living Long-Term with Mental Illness

103

Why We Sabotage Our Own Happiness

104

24 Hours As a Mongolian Architect

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A Sure Way to Get Over Your Ex (This Will Surprise You)

106

3 Ways to Deal with Envious Friends...

107

Why Successful Love Requires Vulnerability

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PLATO ON: The Allegory of the Cave

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The 7 Things You Can Do to Make a Relationship Work

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The Pleasures of Talking Nonsense with Someone We Love

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A Working Day – Taxi Driver, Liberia

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A Working Day – Hairdresser, Seoul

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Reparenting Our Inner Child

114

The Sexiness of Bookish People

115

24 Hours As a British Convenience Store Owner

116

Our Secret Wish to Never Find Love

117

A Working Day – Brain Surgeon, Texas

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The Importance of Expressing Our Needs

119

The Most Romantic Thing You Can Ever Say to Someone

120

The Dawn of Capitalism

121

Two Minute Meditation

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Self Sabotage

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What’s One Idea That Could Help Someone Lonely Feel Less Ashamed of Needing Connection?

124

What to do When Willpower Fails

125

Are You Stuck Playing These 3 Roles in Love?

126

HISTORY OF IDEAS - Failure

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Why We Look down on Low Wage Earners

128

If Philosophers Read the News

129

Don't Watch the News Until You Know This...

130

Why We Can't Stop Loving Those Who Hurt Us

131

The Fix For a "Boring Life" - Sei Shonagen - The Pillow Book

132

Why Relationships Require Self-Love

133

Transference

134

Why Some Adults Can't... "Act Their Age"

135

How Successful People Take Risks

136

Why You Shouldn't Second Guess Your Decisions

137

HISTORY OF IDEAS - Art

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Carl Jung’s Word Association Test

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HISTORY OF IDEAS - Wabi-sabi

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Confidence

141

The 9 Most Common Mistakes We Make when Choosing a Partner

142

HISTORY OF IDEAS - Ancient Greece

143

The Faulty Walnut

144

There is no Safety

145

Why Is It So Hard to Let Ourselves Rest Without Guilt?

146

The Sex-Starved Relationship

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HISTORY OF IDEAS - Monasticism

148

Why Advertising is So Annoying

149

PHILOSOPHY: Immanuel Kant

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How to Weaken the Hold of Addiction

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Why Religious Beliefs Aren't Just Silly

152

The Terror of Being Alone #relationships #theschooloflife #animation

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How to be an Entrepreneur

154

How to Be a Great Lover

155

How Africa Invented Psychotherapy

156

What Your Parents Made You Do for Love…

157

The Life Changing Effect of Small Talk With Strangers

158

Why Is Emotional Maturity the Most Undervalued Skill in Today’s Workplaces? #theschooloflife

159

Why You Aren't Sleeping (and How to Fix It)

160

HISTORY OF IDEAS - The Renaissance

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Take Classes at The School of Life

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The Wisdom of Pessimism

163

The Key Ideas of Hinduism

164

Why Do We Often Protect Our Parents From the Truth of Their Impact?

165

The Psychology of Male Loneliness

166

In Conversation: Alain de Botton on Great Company with Jamie Laing

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Why We Run From Love

168

POP CULTURE: Better Celebrities

169

How to Get Angry a Lot

170

You NEED to know this about State Broadcasters...

171

What Does the Child in You Need Today?

172

How to Ask for Help When You're Overwhelmed

173

Jamie Oliver Cooks for Alain De Botton

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ART/ARCHITECTURE: Andy Warhol

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How to Make Love Last Forever

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The Real Power of Community

177

How to Make a Country Rich

178

LITERATURE - Jane Austen

179

Exercise for Intellectuals

180

How to Find Meaningful Work

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How to Deal with Negative Emotions: Daily Proven Techniques

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LITERATURE - James Baldwin

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In Praise of Nice People

184

The Power of Lies to Transform Your Love Life

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PHILOSOPHY - Schopenhauer

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Envy of the Future

187

Life is Not About Being Happy

188

The Secret Power of Unsent Letters

189

Why Comedy Matters

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NIETZSCHE ON: The Superman

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"Jamie Cooks Philosophy" - A Proposal

192

Why Do We Lose Our Curiosity — and How Can We Get It Back?

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Weaponise Brand Recognition!

194

The Superpower We Gain From Suffering

195

Why Introspection Matters

196

The Psychology of Anxious Attachment

197

How To Fix Your Negative Patterns - Alain de Botton on Chris Williamson

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Are You A Sleazebag?

199

POP CULTURE: What Is Cinema For?

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How to recognise your patterns - and escape them

201

Why We’re Fated to be Lonely

202

8 Rules for Ending Relationships

203

Why You Shouldn't Trust Your Feelings

204

Why We Should Treat Our Partners Like Small Children

205

Why Are People So Nasty?

206

The Only Two Questions to Repair a Relationship

207

How to change your Script

208

Sexual Rejection

209

How to have a Transcendental Experience

210

Why We Sulk and How Not To

211

How Love Stories Ruin Our Love Lives

212

Why We Go Off People Who Like Us

213

The 17 Secrets to a Successful Relationship

214

Is It Better to Be Polite or Frank?

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PHILOSOPHY - David Hume

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HISTORY OF IDEAS - Consumerism

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Why Boys Are Mean To Girls They Like

218

Why We Sabotage Good Relationships

219

POP CULTURE: The Clever Tricks of Advertising

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Why Love and Teaching Belong Together

221

The REAL Political Divide

222

The Importance of Self-Pity

223

POP CULTURE: Why Music Works

224

Why You Keep Having the Same Fight

225

The Power of Simplicity

226

The Dangers Of Being Dutiful

227

How to Work Out the Emotional Maturity of Prospective Partners

228

'I Love You But I Don’t Think We Should Be Together'

229

How to Replace the 10 Commandments

230

The Perfectionist Trap

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ART/ARCHITECTURE - Francisco Goya

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How to Love without fear

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Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present

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How to listen to your Body

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Can Our Partners Change?

236

What is the Stream of Consciousness?

237

Humour In Relationships

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The Secret to a Calm Life

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PHILOSOPHY: Jacques Derrida

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Love And Self-Love

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Why Do We Feel So Ashamed of Needing Reassurance? #theschooloflife

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How Not to Feel Too Bad About Being Single

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Honesty on Early Dates

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The True Cause of Obsessive Thinking #ocd #theschooloflife #animation

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Why Only the Happily Single Find True Love

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How To Choose A Partner Wisely

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Why Is Work so Boring?

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How Politics Can Drive Us Mad

249

How to Enrich a Country: Free Trade or Protectionism?

250

Why is everyone so worried about 'Narcissism'?

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How to be a Friend to Yourself

252

How to Overcome Shyness

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How the Right Words Help Us to Feel the Right Things

254

The Nightmare of Colleagues

255

Wild Advice for Those Who Have Lost Their Minds Over an Ex

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Making Love Last

257

How To Stop Worrying

258

What It's Like Inside Our Minds

259

Alain de Botton on A THERAPEUTIC JOURNEY

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Be the Change You Want to See

261

What our Wedding Vows should Say

262

Why it Probably Wasn’t Better Being Single

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A West African Philosophy of Calm

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What is Your Attachment Style #animation #relationships #love

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In Defence Of 'Needy' People

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Why Love Is Never As Nice As It Should Be

267

Can Lying ever be Kind?

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The Darkest Valentine

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Machiavelli’s Advice For Nice Guys

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How To Be Confident

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Why Humanity Destroyed Itself

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The Appeal of Violent Criminals

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Why Germans Can Say Things No One Else Can

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How Not to be Boring

275

Why People get into Unhealthy Relationships

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Thoreau and Civil Disobedience

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The Ex You Can’t Get Over

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Are we too Materialistic?

279

The Problem with Over-Friendly People

280

Why Hegel knew there would be days like these

281

How to Be Strong and Resilient

282

How to Prepare for the Worst

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How to cope with impotence

284

How to Know If You Have Real Friends (And What to Do If You Don't)

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Love and Sulking

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Why Hurt People Hurt People

287

The Mind Body Problem

288

How Relationships Reveal Our True Selves

289

Why ‘love’ is a useless word – and three alternatives

290

The Mark of True Love...

291

Why, how & when to Flirt

292

The Purpose of Friendship

293

How to Travel in your Mind

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The Problem of Shame #animation #selfworth #mentalhealth

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Why Love requires Generosity

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How We Lie to Ourselves

297

Why You Can Change The World

298

How not to be Angry all the Time

299

How to Get Over Someone

300

A Guide to Self Transformation

301

Why We Could Love Anyone

302

How to be Warm

303

What are the Alternatives to Marriage?

304

Why We Go Cold On Our Partners

305

Should We Laugh Or Should We Cry?

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How To Cope with an Imperfect Partner

307

Are you a Sadist or a Masochist - and Why?

308

Why Our Partners Drive Us Mad

309

Remember That EVERYONE Is Lonely

310

Before You Get Back With Your Ex — Watch THIS

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The Importance Of Affectionate Teasing

312

When Love Isn't Easy

313

Why Small Pleasures Are a Big Deal

314

What Do Cynical People Really Want?

315

Why We Don't Really Want to be Nice

316

Why Socrates Hated Democracy

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The Mistake 90% of People Make in Dating

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LITERATURE - George Orwell

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The Real Reason You Hate Horoscopes

320

The Dangers of Missing a Sense of Self

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How To Cope With Snobbery

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The Importance of Soft Toys

323

Emotional Translation

324

How To Cope With Panic Attacks #animation #panicattack #theschooloflife

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What Is It to Be Emotionally Mature: Part Two

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Philosophical Meditation

327

Cultural Mining

328

The Fragility of Good Government

329

Resilience In Hard Times

330

24 hours as a Ghanaian Dressmaker

331

Our Secret Wish Never to Find Love

332

2 Unexpected Ways to Stop Sabotaging Yourself

333

On Being Out of Touch With One's Feelings

334

How to Become a More Interesting Person

335

On Being Hated

336

How to Cope With Bureaucracy

337

The Advantages of Long-Distance Relationships

338

The True Cause of Obsessive Thinking

339

An Instruction Manual To Oneself

340

Reasons to Remember Death

341

Good Enough Is Good Enough #animation #psychology #enough

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LITERATURE - James Joyce

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The Lottery of Life

344

The Impostor Syndrome

345

Alain de Botton on Romanticism

346

Pessimism for Lovers

347

Why We Need to Take It Slowly in Love

348

Sexual Non-Liberation

349

5 Questions to Ask Yourself Every Evening

350

The Red Flags You Keep Ignoring

351

The Cruel Truth: Why Your Ex Is Perfect for Someone Else

352

History as a Cure for Our Times

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The Challenge of Being Close

354

POP CULTURE: Taylor Swift's Legs & Climate Change

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Why You Keep Having The Same Fight

356

The Conditions of Love

357

Success at School vs Success in Life

358

Why Unloved People Hate Themselves

359

What Charity Really Means

360

The Importance of Staring Out Of The Window

361

Why We Behave As We Do

362

Why And How To Say Sorry

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POLITICAL THEORY – Friedrich Hayek

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What is an Existential Crisis?

365

How to Remain Calm With People

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PHILOSOPHY - Blaise Pascal

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In Praise of Short-Term Love

368

Sapiosexuality: the Challenges of Coming Out (a satire)

369

LITERATURE - Gustave Flaubert

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Why a Walk in the Park Can Save Your Life

371

LITERATURE - Virginia Woolf

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How to Get Divorced

373

How to End a Relationship

374

Why Nice People Repel Us

375

PHILOSOPHY - René Descartes

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Honest Communication

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Why - and how - we need to make our peace with being single

378

Astrophysics and Religion

379

The Lengths We Go To Avoid Love

380

A Test to Measure How Good Your Father Was

381

Why We Should Refuse to Get Into Arguments

382

The One Question We Forget to Ask Ourselves in Love—and Why

383

HISTORY OF IDEAS - Religion

384

Why We Think We Are Losers (But Actually Aren't)

385

Why Arts Graduates Are Under-Employed

386

Why Nice People Are Scary

387

Your Mind Is Trying to Heal You (By Hurting You)

388

How Repressed Emotions Make Us Sick

389

HISTORY OF IDEAS - Work

390

EASTERN PHILOSOPHY - Matsuo Basho

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On Feeling Melancholy

392

Being Jollied Along

393

Meritocracy

394

SOCIOLOGY - Alexis De Tocqueville

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Artificial Intelligence

396

LITERATURE - Charles Dickens

397

Good and Bad Childhoods

398

The Fear of Being Bad in Bed

399

Is Everyone Else Normal? Feeling Painfully Different

400

PSYCHOTHERAPY - Jacques Lacan

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Why Dating Destroys Your Mental Health

402

How To Get Over Rejection

403

What to do about Insomnia

404

We're on Tour Around the USA

405

When Love Isn't Easy

406

The One Question You Need to Understand Who You Are

407

How to Tell If You're Afraid of Intimacy

408

The Secret Power of Missing Someone

409

How To Overcome Psychological Barriers

410

Why You Still Have Time To Change Career

411

The Dangers of Oversharing

412

HISTORY OF IDEAS - Rituals

413

How to Find Out What's Really on Your Mind

414

Alain de Botton on Love

415

The Only Relationship Rule That Matters

416

Who Am I?

417

When and Why do we Pick Up our Phones?

418

The Three Steps to Making Someone Fall in Love

419

How We Help Out Exes Have a Lovely Future #animation #relationships #theschooloflife

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The Pleasures of Total Disagreement

421

How Romanticism Ruined Love

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LITERATURE - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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How to Know When You've Found a Great Partner

424

Self-Esteem

425

SOCIOLOGY - Auguste Comte

426

Overcoming Childhood

427

LITERATURE - Voltaire

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Open Up

429

The Real Reason We Work So Hard

430

Eastern vs. Western Philosophy

431

LITERATURE - Ralph Waldo Emerson

432

Overcoming Bad Inner Voices

433

Peter Gabriel on Music

434

POLITICAL THEORY – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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A Question to Ask Ourselves When We Are Low and Paranoid

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The one question you need to understand who you are #shorts #selfcare #importantquestions

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Do This When Your Battery Is Running Low

438

No One is 'Normal'

439

When People Tell You Who They Are Believe Them

440

Being A Good Listener

441

I'm Offended

442

How to Spot the Loveliest People in the World

443

Secret Thoughts: Jaffa Cakes

444

HISTORY OF IDEAS - Love

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Secret Thoughts: I'm so busy

446

Why You Will Never Find The Right Person

447

Student Philosopher: Nietzsche, Apollo & Dionysus

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How to Deepen Your Friendships

449

Why We Need to Take It Slowly in Love

450

What is Inflation?

451

POLITICAL THEORY - Thomas Hobbes

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How Will We Die?

453

The Dangers of Missing a Sense of Self

454

12 Signs You Are a Psychologically Mature Adult

455

What is 'success'?

456

A Novel To Help Our Love Lives

457

Psychotherapy

458

What are Universities for?

459

The Horrors of Jealousy

460

The Number One Rule for Healthy Relationships

461

The Hidden Cost of Skipping Key Stages of Development

462

LITERATURE: Franz Kafka

463

A Writing Exercise to Help You Meet Yourself

464

Freud on: Sublimation

465

The Pleasure of Kissing

466

Why Children's Drawings Matter

467

A Guide For the Recovering Avoidant

468

Secret Thoughts: The Marriage

469

The Ruin of London

470

How to Protect Ourselves

471

PHILOSOPHY - Hegel

472

The Secrets of Happiness – in 60 Seconds

473

NEW! LEGO ‘PHILOSOPHY’ RANGE

474

Secret Food Obsession

475

PHILOSOPHY - Michel Foucault

476

Why Is Breaking Up Often an Act of Emotional Maturity, Not Failure?

477

Student Philosopher: Where to Start with Philosophy?

478

Why Do We Sometimes Run Away From the Very Love That We Want?

479

Are you afraid of intimacy? #animation #shorts #intimacy

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The Only Way to Date Successfully

481

How Wounded People Seek Out further Punishment

482

How to Help Those We Love