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The School of Life — 625 episodes
The Perils of Parents
Why We're Tempted to Blame Our Partners
Breaking Free From Negative Thought Patterns to Find Joy
Why It’s OK to Compromise in Love
hours as an English Farmworker
When People Refuse Love
Why You Need to Have a Full Adolescence
Hours As a Cattle Wrangler in Cameroon
The 7 Things You Can Do to Build a Relationship That Works
POP CULTURE: Mark Zuckerberg's Grey Tees
How To Be A Man
PLATO ON: The Cave's Parable
LITERATURE - Samuel Beckett
Wisdom
The Pleasures of Discussing Rubbish with Someone We Love
What Is Narcissism?
Good Enough Is Good Enough
A Working Day – Cab Driver, Liberia
How to Seduce Someone on a Date
POP CULTURE: When and Why We Cry During Movies
Parenting Our Inner Child Anew
The Appeal of Coming to Other People's Aid
A Working Day – Hair Dresser, Seoul
How Successful People Approach Risk
Daddy Issues
How To Keep Growing Up
Burke on: The Awesome
The Appeal of Bibliophilic People
Two Minute Stillness
The Sexual Dreams of Others
If Philosophers Followed the News
Why You Shouldn't Overthink Your Decisions
The Sanity of 'Insanity
Hours As a British Convenience Retail Owner
Self Impediment
LITERATURE - Goethe
What's One Idea That Could Help Someone Lonely Feel Less Self-Conscious of Requiring Connection?
Don't Watch the News Until You've Learned This...
Panic Spells
Our Unspoken Wish to Never Encounter Love
Carl Jung's Word Linking Test
How to Change Your Partner Through Humour
What is emotional acuity #animation #theschooloflife #emotionalintelligence
What to do When Willpower Abandons You
Why We Continue Loving Those Who Hurt Us
Can Exes Be Friends?
HISTORY OF IDEAS - Aesthetics
The Remedy For a "Monotonous Life" - Sei Shonagon - The Pillow Book
Van Gogh As a Guide to Self-Trust
On Feeling Depressed
Economic Want
Are You Locked Into These 3 Roles in Love?
Why We (Sometimes) Wish Those We Love Might Die
Our Secret Fantasies
Navigating Mental Illness for the Long Haul
A Working Day – Brain Surgeon, San Antonio
HISTORY OF IDEAS - Wabi-sabi
How To Be Selfish
Why We Derail Our Own Happiness
The Importance of Communicating Our Needs
HISTORY OF IDEAS - Collapse
How to Complain
Seven Questions to Restart Love
Confidence
Why Relationships Depend on Self-Love
Why Love Involves Teaching
The Terror of a 'No'
Hours As a Mongolian Structural Professional
The Most Romantic Thing You Can Ever Express to Someone
The 9 Most Common Mistakes We Make when Picking a Partner
Why Clothes Matter
A Definite Way to Get Over Your Ex (This Will Surprise You)
Why We Judge Low Wage Earners
Why Some Adults Can't... "Grow Their Age
How to Tame a Pitiless Inner Critic
The Beginning of Capitalism
Approaches to Navigate Envious Friends...
Why We Had to Go to Germany
The Secrets of Other People's Relationships
Transference
HISTORY OF IDEAS - Ancient Hellas
Why Advertising is So Exasperating
Why Lasting Love Requires Vulnerability
The Damaged Walnut
How to Reduce the Hold of Addiction
There is no Guarantee
PHILOSOPHY: Immanuel Kant's Ideas
Why Is It So Challenging to Release Ourselves Into Rest Without Guilt?
The Secrets of EMDR Therapy and How It Can Help You
The Desire-Starved Relationship
Why Religious Beliefs Aren't Just Foolish
The Horror of Isolation #relationships #theschooloflife #animation
How Do You Like to Be Comforted?
HISTORY OF IDEAS - Monastic Movement
How to Act as an Entrepreneur
How to Be an Outstanding Lover
How to Resist Conspiracy Theories
How Africa Developed Psychotherapy
Why We May Be Angry Rather Than Sad
What Your Parents Made You Do for Devotion…
The Life Altering Effect of Small Talk With Strangers
Why Is Emotional Maturity the Most Underappreciated Asset in Today's Professional Environments? #theschooloflife
Why You Aren't Sleeping (and How to Resolve It)
HISTORY OF IDEAS - The Creative Resurgence
Discover Lessons at The School of Life
The Fundamental Ideas of Hinduism
Why We Love to Suffer
The Insight of Pessimism
Why Do We Often Shelter Our Parents From the Truth of Their Consequences?
The Psychology of Men's Loneliness
In Conversation: Alain de Botton on Excellent Company with Jamie Laing
Why Good Societies Are Pessimistic
Why We Avoid Love
The Three Requirements of a Good Relationship
How to Make a Country Wealthy
What Everyone Really Wants
LITERATURE - Jane Austen
Why You Are Not a Loser
Movement for Intellectuals
Mental Illness and Reasons to Live
How to Process Negative Emotions: Daily Proven Techniques
Sleep and Mental Health
How to Locate Work That Matters
What Love Really Is and Why It Matters
POP CULTURE: Finer Celebrities
LITERATURE - James Baldwin
How to Get Angry Frequently
What Is Emotional Neglect? And How to Cope
You NEED to know this about Public Broadcasters...
In Praise of Thoughtful People
What Does Your Inner Child Need Today?
The Impact of Dishonesty to Transform Your Love Life
PHILOSOPHY - Schopenhauer
When We Fall Mentally Ill...
How to Seek Help When You're Overwhelmed
Envy of What's Ahead
Jamie Oliver Cooks a Meal for Alain De Botton
Life is Not About Pursuing Happiness
How to Make Love Persist Forever
To Have or Not to Have Children
ART/ARCHITECTURE: Andy Warhol
The Secret Power of Gratitude
The Genuine Power of Community
The Quiet Force of Undelivered Letters
How Unloving Parents Generate Self-Hating Children
Why Comedy Signifies
NIETZSCHE ON: The Superior Being
Is It OK to Keep Secrets From Your Partner?
Jamie Presents Philosophy - A Proposal
Why Do We Shed Our Curiosity — and How Can We Revive It?
Weaponise Brand Prominence!
The Cure for Unrequited Love
The Strength We Develop Through Suffering
Why Inner Reflection Matters
The Psychology of Insecure Attachment
How To Break Your Negative Patterns - Alain de Botton on Chris Williamson
Are You A Sleazebag?
How to recognise your patterns - and break free from them
POP CULTURE: What Is Cinema Meant To Do?
Why We're Cursed to be Lonely
Guidelines for Ending Relationships
What Is Mental Health?
Why You Shouldn't Put Faith in Your Feelings
Why We Should Treat Our Partners Like Toddlers
The Only Two Questions to Restore a Relationship
Why Are People So Rude?
How to transform your Script
Overcoming Sexual Shame
How to Be Kinder to Ourselves
How to Find Satisfying Work
How to Keep a Relationship Going
The Body Keeps the Score
Our Need for Connection
Hysteria When Your Partner Is Too Calm
How to Achieve a Transcendental Experience
8 Secrets of a Healthy Mind
Why We Only Learn When We Repeat
Physical Rejection
Why We Sulk and How to Stop It
How Dreading the Future May Be a Symptom of Your Past
How Love Stories Undermine Our Relationships
The 17 Secrets to a Fulfilling Relationship
Why We Turn Off People Who Like Us
Is It Better to Be Civil or Candid?
PHILOSOPHY - David Hume
HISTORY OF IDEAS - The Consumer Impulse
Why Boys Are Harsh To Girls They Fancy
Why We Destroy Good Relationships
POP CULTURE: The Intelligent Methods of Advertising
Why Love and Pedagogy Belong Together
The GENUINE Political Divide
Weaponise Blushing
How to Be Charming When Talking About Yourself
The Case for Self-Pity
POP CULTURE: Why Music Matters
Why You Keep Fighting the Same Battle
The Force of Simplicity
The Dangers Of Being Conscientious
How to Gauge the Emotional Maturity of Future Partners
Why We Call Our Partners 'baby'
Why Do We Feel So Ashamed of Wanting Reassurance? #theschooloflife
ART/ARCHITECTURE - Rembrandt
I Love You But I Don't Think We Should Stay Together
How Not to Feel Awful About Being Single
How to Love Your Work
Two Reasons People End up Bad Parents
How to Rewrite the 10 Commandments
Candor on First Dates
The Genuine Source of Obsessive Thinking #ocd #theschooloflife #animation
ART/ARCHITECTURE - Francisco Goya
Why Only the Blissfully Single Find Genuine Love
How to Increase Resilience
The Perfectionism Trap
How To Choose A Companion Thoughtfully
How to Love without Dread
Can Pills or Therapy Save You?
Why Is Work so Uninspiring?
How to Pay Attention to Your Body
Why It Is So Challenging to Stay in the Present
Learning to Forgive Ourselves
Can Our Partners Evolve?
How Politics Can Make Us Insane
What is the Tide of Consciousness?
A Self-hatred Questionnaire
The Secret to a Serene Life
Why is everybody so anxious about 'Narcissism'?
The Problem With Perfectionism
Laughter In Relationships
How to Advance a Country: Free Trade or Protectionism?
PHILOSOPHY: Jacques Derrida
How to Find Creative Work
Love And Self-Affection
How to Treat Yourself as a Friend
How to Move Past Shyness
How the Right Words Help Us to Feel What We Should
How Can I Be More Normal?
The Nightmare of Teammates
Untamed Counsel for Those Who Have Lost Their Minds Over an Ex
Sustaining Love Long
How To End Worrying
Alain de Botton on A RESTORATIVE JOURNEY
What It's Like Inside Our Thoughts
Manifest the Change You Want to See
What our Wedding Vows should Convey
A West African Philosophy of Peace
How Perfectionism Makes Us Ill
Why It Probably Wasn't Better Being Unattached
What is Your Attachment Type #animation #relationships #love
In Defence Of 'Clingy' People
What to Do About Being Clumsy
Why Love Is Never As Wonderful As It Should Be
How To Be More Loving
Can Lying ever be Kind?
How You Could Ruin Someone's Day or Life
The Saddest Valentine
Acceptance and Mental Health
Machiavelli's Tips For Nice Guys
How To Become Confident
The Unique Power Of Gardening in Islamic Culture
Why Humanity Undid Itself
The Fascination with Violent Criminals
Why Germans Can Utter Things No One Else Can
How to handle inadequacy
Why People Fall Into Dysfunctional Relationships
How Not to be Dull
Love and Withdrawing
Thoreau and Nonviolent Resistance
Why Damaged People Damage People
The Ex You Can’t Get Over
How Relationships Uncover Our Authentic Selves
Are we too Consumeristic?
How to Overcome Shyness
The Problem with Overly Amiable People
LITERATURE - Oscar Wilde
How to Be Resilient and Robust
Why Criticism Can Hurt so Much
Why Hegel recognized there would be days like these
The Mind Body Question
Why 'love' is an imprecise word – and three alternatives
How to Ready Yourself for the Worst
The Sign of True Love...
I Feel So Lonely!
How to Recognize If You Have True Friends (And What to Do If You Don't)
Why you can't find a partner
Why, how & when to Charm
The Point of Friendship
How to Recount Your Dreams
How to Wander in your Mind
The Challenge of Shame #animation #selfworth #mentalhealth
Why Love Calls for Generosity
How We Mislead Ourselves
Why You Can Shift The World
How not to be Irritable all the Time
A Manual for Self Reinvention
How to Get Past Someone
Why We Could Adore Anybody
How to Look Beautiful
How to be Friendly
What are the Alternatives to Wedlock?
Why We Turn Cold On Our Partners
How To Live with an Imperfect Partner
Should We Laugh Or Should We Despair?
Are you a Sadist or a Masochist - and How Come?
Zen Buddhism's Secret Tool
How To Cope When Mental Illness Shuts Down Our Minds
What Infidelity Means
Keep in Mind That EVERYONE Is Lonely
Why Little Things Matter During the Apocalypse
Why Our Partners Drive Us Insane
Before You Reconcile With Your Ex — Watch THIS
Dark Truths to Cheer us up
The Significance Of Affectionate Teasing
When Love Gets Complicated
Why Modest Pleasures Are a Big Deal
What Do Cynical People Truly Seek?
Cultural Prospecting
Why We Don't Truly Want to be Nice
Excellent Concepts From Hinduism
Why Socrates Rejected Democracy
What Dating Apps Get Wrong About Love
The Error 90% of People Make in Dating
The Fragility of Virtuous Government
LITERATURE - George Orwell
Resilience In Challenging Times
The Actual Reason You Despise Horoscopes
Our Hidden Wish Never to Discover Love
The Risks of Losing a Sense of Self
Why Do Unfortunate Things Keep Occurring to Me?
How To Manage Snobbery
hours as a Ghanaian Garment Maker
Surprising Approaches to Stop Undermining Yourself
Why we should pity High Achievers
The Relevance of Soft Toys
How to Become a More Captivating Person
Emotional Articulation
On Being Estranged From One's Emotions
How To Handle Panic Attacks #animation #panicattack #theschooloflife
On Being Hated
What Constitutes Emotional Maturity: Part Two
How to Navigate Bureaucracy
How to Stop Playing Games in Relationships
POLITICAL THEORY - John Maynard Keynes
LITERATURE - James Joyce
Philosophical Rumination
The Genuine Root of Obsessive Thinking
The Lottery of Living
The Strengths of Long-Distance Relationships
Components of Mental Wellbeing
An Instruction Manual To Yourself
The Impostor Complex
Reasons to Keep Death in Mind
Alain de Botton on Romantic Ideals
Sufficient Is Sufficient #animation #psychology #enough
Pessimism for the Enamored
Why We Should Take Our Time in Love
How You Can Be Too Intelligent
What's Still Lovely
Why We Ought to Be 'Childlike' in Love
Sexual Unfreedom
The Warning Signs You Keep Overlooking
Questions to Reflect On Every Evening
Why You Keep Repeating The Same Argument
The Harsh Reality: Why Your Ex Is Ideal for Someone Else
The Requirements of Love
Why Unbeloved People Despise Themselves
ART/ARCHITECTURE - Louis Kahn
History as a Remedy for the Present Day
Excellence at School vs Excellence in Life
The Challenge of Intimacy
What Charity Genuinely Implies
POP CULTURE: Taylor Swift's Legs & Environmental Crisis
The Importance of Peering Out Of The Window
Why We Act As We Do
The Advantages of Suffering a Mental Breakdown
Why And How To Express Regret
POLITICAL THOUGHT – Friedrich Hayek
What Triggers an Existential Crisis?
How to Maintain Composure With People
PHILOSOPHY - Blaise Pascal
How to Narrate Your Life Story
Which Long-term Relationships Will Last and Which Won't
On the Value of Short-Term Love
How To Become A Fascinating Person
Why Our Closest People Hurt Us
Sapiosexuality: the Hurdles of Going Public (a satire)
LITERATURE - Gustave Flaubert
Why a Walk in the Park Can Rescue Your Life
When You Are Feeling Still and Numb
LITERATURE - Virginia Woolf
How to Leave a Marriage
Why Likeable People Push Us Away
How to Terminate a Relationship
PHILOSOPHY - René Descartes
Authentic Communication
Why - and how - we need to make our peace with solitude
Astrophysics and the Sacred
A Test to Measure How Good Your Parent Was
The Extremes We Go To Evade Love
Things It’s Best to Say in Latin
Why We Should Resist Getting Into Arguments
The One Question We Fail to Ask Ourselves in Love—and Why
We Have an Important Announcement...
Why We Consider Ourselves Failures (But Actually Aren't)
HISTORY OF IDEAS - The Sacred
How Suppressed Emotions Make Us Ill
Why Arts Graduates Lack Job Prospects
Why Good People Are Scary
HISTORY OF IDEAS - Careers
Your Mind Is Working to Heal You (By Hurting You)
Historical Hangovers Making Us Unhappy Today
ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY - Matsuo Basho
On Embracing Melancholy
Being Charmed Along
Meritocracy
SOCIOLOGY - Alexis De Tocqueville
Computational Intelligence
LITERATURE - Charles Dickens
The Seven Deadly Sins
Good and Bad Early Years
The Fear of Being Terrible in Bed
Are We All Normal? Feeling Painfully Different
PSYCHOTHERAPY - Jacques Lacan
Why Dating Harms Your Psychological Wellbeing
How To Overcome Rejection
What to do about Sleep Loss
The Perils of Oversharing
We're on Tour Throughout America
Why It Might Be Your Physical Self - Not Your Thoughts
How to Uncover What's Actually on Your Mind
When Love Gets Hard
The One Question You Need to Know Who You Are
HISTORY OF IDEAS - Customs
How to Tell If You're Terrified of Closeness
Alain de Botton on Romance
The One Relationship Principle That Truly Matters
Eastern Vs Western Philosophies of Happiness
When and Why do we Grab our Phones?
Stop Broadcasting Your Anxieties on Social Media
Who Am I?
Stop Being Nice All the Time
The Three Steps to Making Someone Fall in Love With You
Why You Should Endeavor to Be More Self-Serving
How We Assist Exes Create a Wonderful Future #animation #relationships #theschooloflife
Should I Prioritize Passion or Obligation?
The Pleasures of Fundamental Disagreement
You Still Have a Chance to Be Genuinely Original
How Romanticism Destroyed Love
Why You Should State What You Need
If Your Parents Weren't Listening to You Properly...
How to Attune to Your Feelings... and Why It Counts
How To Be A Good Listener
The Untold Force of Missing Someone
LITERATURE - Fyodor Dostoevskii
How to Tell When You've Found a Great Partner
Why We Need to 'Feel' - and Not Merely Think
How To Break Through Psychological Barriers
Self-Esteem
Why You Still Have Time To Pivot Your Career
SOCIOLOGY - Auguste Comte
Rising Above Childhood
Why We Are All Hooked
LITERATURE - Voltaire
The News is Driving you CRAZY
The True Reason We Toil So Much
Why It Really Is All About Your Formative Years
Open Up
Eastern versus Western Philosophies
What to Do With Your Trauma?
LITERATURE - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conquering Your Cruel Inner Voices
Peter Gabriel on Songwriting
A Question to Ask Ourselves When We're Down and Distrustful
POLITICAL CONCEPTS – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Is There an Alternative to Political Correctness?
The one question you must comprehend to understand who you are #shorts #selfcare #importantquestions
Do This When Your Battery Is Depleted
No One is 'Conventional
When People Reveal Who They Are Accept It
Being A Better Listener
How to Recognize the Most Delightful People in the World
How to Tell If You Have Been Manipulated
I'm Wounded
Concealed Contemplations: Jaffa Cakes
HISTORY OF IDEAS - Attachment
Intimate Musings: I'm so busy
How Damaged People Chase More Pain
The Distrust Test
How to Aid Those We Love
Why We Become Lonely
Why You Will Never Discover The Right Person
Why Your History Won't Support Your Present
Novice Philosopher: Nietzsche, Apollo & Dionysus
PHILOSOPHY - Emil Cioran
How to Enrich Your Friendships
Why We Must Slow Down in Love
In Praise of Self-Examining People
What is Rising Prices?
POLITICAL DOCTRINE - Thomas Hobbes
How Will We Go?
The Risks of Losing a Sense of Self
Markers of a Psychologically Mature Adult
What is 'prosperity'?
A Novel To Strengthen Our Love Lives
Psychotherapy
What is University for?
The First Rule for Thriving Relationships
How to Cease People Pleasing and Discover Happiness
The Agonies of Jealousy
The Concealed Expense of Skipping Key Stages of Development
A Writing Exercise to Help You Discover Yourself
LITERATURE: Franz Kafka
How Not To Rant
Freud on: Channelling
Why People Develop Mental Illness
The Enjoyment of Kissing
How to Remove Your Parents from Your Thoughts
A Handbook For the Recovering Avoidant
LITERATURE - Charles Darwin
Why Your Child's Drawings Matter
Concealed Musings: The Marriage
The Hidden Strength Of Psychedelic Therapy
The Downfall of London
How to Shield Ourselves
PHILOSOPHY - Hegel
The Mysteries of Happiness – in 60 Seconds
NEW! LEGO 'THINKING' RANGE
Clandestine Food Obsession
PHILOSOPHY - Michel Foucault
Why Is Leaving a Relationship Often an Act of Emotional Maturity, Not Failure?
Emerging Philosopher: Where to Start with Philosophy?
The Importance of Flattery
Why Do We Sometimes Escape From the Very Love That We Crave?
Are you scared of closeness? #animation #shorts #intimacy
The Singular Path to Dating Successfully
One Crucial Question to Emancipate Yourself From Childhood
PHILOSOPHY - Søren Kierkegaard
Why We Should Draw More (and Take Fewer Photos)
Why Design Signifies
Why Are Minor Joys So Readily Missed, and Why Are They Essential?
Regulating your Mood: Tips for Staying Present | The School of Life
Questions to Examine your Parents
The Ancient Source of Cancellation
On Feeling Compelled
Kierkegaard on Romance
Unoccupied Chair Therapy: Repair Your Past, Better Your Future
We Are Going to Los Angeles
How Keeping a Journal Can Save You
POLITICAL DOCTRINE - Niccolò Machiavelli
First World Predicaments
Why You Need An Early Night
Why People Pursue Affairs
Getting Better at Selecting Lovers
PHILOSOPHY - Thomas Aquinas
Why Work is Easier Than Intimacy
Learner Philosopher: Plato's Ladder of Love
Work-Life Harmony
POLITICAL THINKERS - John Locke
The Meaning of Life - in One Minute
th Century; Affection and Sex
Secrets of Psychotherapy
Being a Woman in Philosophy Studies
Why Do People Obstruct Their Own Success?
Outcasts and Tragic Heroes
The Most Excellent Offices Globally Do This...
Individuals to avoid falling in love with: a checklist
Freud's Oedipus Complex Can BOOST Your Sexual Life
The Problems of Being Strikingly Beautiful
How to Uncover What You Actually Actually Think and Why...
How To Argue With Your Partner
The Secret Manual to Make Friends and Influence People
In Favor of Hugs
The Worry of Intimacy
Why Do Emotionally Immature Offices Tire Us? Even When the Work Is Fine?
How to Stop Getting RATTLED Forever
SOCIOLOGY - Theodor Adorno
How All Unkindness Is Inherited
The Influence of Anger on Young Children
What Self-Worth Is
Worried and Distant couples and their Phones
The Avoidant Partner with the Power to Drive You Insane
LITERATURE - Marcel Proust
SOCIOLOGY - Émile Durkheim
Why It Can Take Us So Long to Grasp How Sick We Actually Are
Beauty Is NOT in the Eyes of the Onlooker
Your Two Paths in Love After a Painful Childhood
Marcel Proust - Seeking Lost Time Audiobook
EASTERN PHILOSOPHY: Non-Action
The Dangers of the Good Child
The Fragility of Strength
HISTORY OF IDEAS - French & English Garden Design
Paris: The Institution of Life
EASTERN PHILOSOPHY - The Admiration of Rocks
What Is Your Partner Actually Thinking?
Is Human Evolution still Taking Place?
LITERATURE - C. P. Cavafy
Why We're Always Feeling Ashamed and Guilty
PLATO ON: The Universals
Emotional Tools
In Praise of The Tranquil Life
People Pleasers in Partnerships
ART/ARCHITECTURE - Mark Rothko
ART/ARCHITECTURE - Andrea Palladio
The Functions of Envy
Why You Should Get Married Today
HISTORY OF IDEAS - Courtesy
Why we think so much about our hair
The Agonies of Children
How to 'Grow' - The Tough Reality of Growth
How to Choose a Decision
ART/ARCHITECTURE – Dieter Rams
The Wisdom of Animals
Why Tiny Things About Our Partners Drive Us Mad
How to Have a Good Conversation
The Value of Being Single
How to Utilize Drugs
How to Be Sad
A Proven Way to Get Over Your Ex (This Will Surprise You) #animation #theschooloflife #relationship
A Dark Way to Forecast what might happen in your relationship
EASTERN PHILOSOPHY - Kintsukuroi
The Most Romantic Thing You Can Ever Express to Someone
The Importance of Fulfilling Sex #theschooloflife #animation #relationship
Why Parents Torment Their Children
LITERATURE - Edward Gibbon
How to Be Less Defensive in Relationships
LITERATURE: Leo Tolstoy