The School of Life
The School of Life podcast applies classic philosophy, modern psychology, and culture to everyday issues like work, love, anxiety, and the search for meaning. Each episode explores deep questions of the human condition through calm, insightful audio essays designed to help listeners understand themselves and the world around them. Topics include self-knowledge, relationships, career fulfillment, and strategies for resilience. The podcast aims to help listeners manage emotions, develop better relationships, and find peace of mind.
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Why You Shouldn't Overthink Your Decisions
Questioning past decisions? This film explores the psychology of regret and the power of conviction. Learn to overcome self-doubt and make confident choices in a world of constant change. #Regret #DecisionMaking #SelfDoubt #Psychology #PersonalGrowth
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How to Be a Better Person in 2018
Making resolutions to be a better person is a hugely important activity - even if we can't always stick to every last one. Here is a list of suggested moves for how to be a slightly nicer person to live around in the new year.
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Seven Questions to Restart Love
Often love can disappear between two people not because the relationship is doomed, but because the right sort of conversations haven’t been happening. Here are seven topics of conversation that can be guaranteed to rekindle emotion.
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How to Complain
A good life will always have to involve complaining about how some people behave around us. But the act of complaining can go better or worse, depending on our our approach. Knowing how to complain properly is one of life’s key skills.
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Can Exes Be Friends?
Partners who break up frequently think that the nicest thing to do is to try to remain good friends. But this nice-sounding gesture frequently brings with it unexpected consequences.
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Why Advertising is So Exasperating
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The Remedy For a "Monotonous Life" - Sei Shonagon - The Pillow Book
It feels natural, at times, to lament how boring our lives are. We do the same things each week, nothing special or exciting ever seems to happen. We enviously compare our dull routines to the adventures of others. An antidote to our sense of tedium can be found a thousand years ago in the work of Sei Shonagon, a lady-in-waiting at the Imperial Place in Kyoto.
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How to Reduce the Hold of Addiction
The triggers for addictive behaviours are always rooted in painful, self-critical emotions.
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HISTORY OF IDEAS - Ancient Hellas
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How Emotionally Healthy Are You?
Emotional health is defined by four markers: our degree of self-love, of openness, of communication and of trust. Watch our film to interrogate your level of emotional health.
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Van Gogh As a Guide to Self-Trust
In 1888, a penniless Dutchman, who would in a few months be committed to an asylum and be dead within two years, sat down in the eastern corner of the Place du Forum in Arles and set to work on one of the most astonishing and beloved paintings ever made. The story is so familiar that we are apt to lose sight of its ongoing relevance and universal import…
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HISTORY OF IDEAS - Collapse
People have failed throughout history but the way the failure has been interpreted has changed throughout the ages in fascinating ways.
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On Feeling Depressed
There remains a huge amount of stigma around depression, but if we look at what an average human is up against, feelings of depression are entirely normal, indeed, to be expected. We don’t need to compound our misery through a sense that it’s either unusual or unwarranted. I
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Why Relationships Depend on Self-Love
No animal, perhaps, can hate itself except - of course - a human being: it’s one of the strangest, and most regrettable, flaws in our condition. This tendency to self-hatred is not only destructive of our spirit, it constantly undermines our efforts to establish workable relationships.
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The Damaged Walnut
Our minds are made up of some of the most impressive matter in the universe. But they are also profoundly flawed machines, whose weaknesses we should be well aware of. We like to call them 'faulty walnuts.'
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HISTORY OF IDEAS - Monastic Movement
Not many people take off to go and live in monasteries nowadays, but the institution of monasticism has much to teach the modern world, which perhaps places rather too much emphasis on the idea of living in couples.
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Why Love Involves Teaching
We often equate true love with being accepted 'for who we really are'. But given how many flaws we all have, true love has to include a process of mutual education we would be wise to accept with good grace.
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How to Tame a Pitiless Inner Critic
Many of us are struggling with an intensely critical inner voice, one who relentlessly punishes us for failing to live up to an impossible standard. Taming this voice requires us to recognise where it is coming from and what may be driving its fury.
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There is no Guarantee
So much of our lives is spent trying to establish a place of safety: we seek safety through money, status, home insurance, health supplements… But wisdom comes from realising that there is in fact no way to be properly safe – and that we therefore need to learn the wisdom of insecurity.
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How to Act as an Entrepreneur
The dream of becoming an entrepreneur is extremely common. Putting the plan in action requires many things, most importantly: a really great idea. But where do really good ideas come from? Our unhappiest moments…
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The Terror of a 'No'
We miss out on the finest opportunities of our lives because of an underlying terror of a very short word. We should overcome the fear.
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How to Be an Outstanding Lover
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Forget the search for a perfect physique or professional success. An ideal lover is defined by their emotional intelligence, their ability to admit to flaws, and their benevolent interpretation of our behavior. Learn why vulnerability and humor are the true keys to intimacy. #Relationships #SelfAwareness #Idea
PHILOSOPHY: Immanuel Kant's Ideas
Immanuel Kant was acutely aware of living in an age when philosophy would need to supplant the role once played by religion. This helped him to arrive at his most famous concept: the ‘categorical imperative.’
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The Confessions Game
The best encounters with friends are those where we can talk honestly about what's going on in our lives, sharing triumphs, joys, fears and longings - without the usual shyness or reserve. We made the Confessions Game to get a group of friends into some of the very best sorts of conversations.
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Why Is It So Challenging to Release Ourselves Into Rest Without Guilt?
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Why We Judge Low Wage Earners
Earning little money is a sure route to being neglected and patronised in modern societies. But why is this, and what can we realistically do to counteract the psychological humiliation this causes?
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Confidence
One of the most apparently trivial but in truth crucial ingredients behind success is the thing we call Confidence. What is it, where does it come from, and how might we have a little more of it please?
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Approaches to Navigate Envious Friends...
Almost inevitably, somewhere along the path of our friendships, we are fated to stumble upon one of the most paradoxical yet universal of characters: the envious friend. The situation is as wounding as it is uncharted. How are we to cope? Can this be happening to us?
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The Most Romantic Thing You Can Ever Express to Someone
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What is the most romantic thing you can ever say to a partner? It isn't "I will never leave you" or "You are my everything." Instead, the most vital phrase for the survival of love is a firm boundary: "If you ever stop being nice to me, I will leave you in short order." This film explores the "paradox of limit
How to Resist Conspiracy Theories
It can be easy, in certain moods, to suspect that we can trust no one and to feel the temptation of conspiracy theories. But we’d be wiser learning the art of an intelligent form of scepticism.
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The Secrets of EMDR Therapy and How It Can Help You
The fundamental idea behind psychotherapy is that we tend to grow mentally unwell because we haven’t been able to think with sufficient clarity about the difficulties in our past, typically in our distant childhoods. EMDR therapy is a fascinating tool that can help us process these difficulties, move past them and continue with our adult lives.
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How Africa Developed Psychotherapy
Ghosts of the past haunting your present? Explore the psychology of ancestors and traditional healing from Africa. Discover how ancient wisdom can unlock modern well-being. #Ancestors #Therapy #Psychology #Africa #Healing #Spirituality
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The 9 Most Common Mistakes We Make when Picking a Partner
This film dissects the psychology of attraction and the 9 critical errors people make when choosing a partner. Learn to avoid relationship pitfalls and find lasting love. #Dating #Relationships #Psychology #Love #Marriage #ModernDating
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The Secrets of Other People's Relationships
Those of us in relationships suffer from an ignorance of what other people’s relationships are really like. We should recognise that episodes of difficulty and ambivalence are not the exception, but the norm.
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The Desire-Starved Relationship
Not having enough sex in a relationship could sound like a rather trivial issue, to be laughed off in front of others. But in truth, a shortage of sex threatens relationships like almost nothing else – and deserves thought and attention.
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How to Deal With A Crisis of Meaning
Many of us are regularly thrown off course by what we might term ‘crisis of meaning’; periods when what we are up to seems not to connect up with anything purposeful or properly dignified. It’s at such moments that we need to lean on a bigger theory of what meaning is, where it comes from, and how our lives relate to it.
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Movement for Intellectuals
All too often nowadays, people who love to exercise their brains forget to exercise their bodies. This wasn’t the way of the Ancient Greeks, who believed that true philosophers always work on their physical and mental selves.
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Why Clothes Matter
The clothes we choose to wear constitute some of our most crucial and carefully chosen lines of autobiography.
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Why We Had to Go to Germany
The School of Life has opened a branch in Germany, in Berlin.
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Why Religious Beliefs Aren't Just Foolish
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How to Process Negative Emotions: Daily Proven Techniques
An unexpected and troublesome feature of being human is that we feel so much more than we spontaneously realise we feel. There are emotions coursing through us - of anger or joy, resentment or fear - that lie just outside the sphere of ordinary consciousness and that elude us as we rush through the challenges of our lives.
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The Horror of Isolation #relationships #theschooloflife #animation
We are unnecessarily scared of being on our own because we fail to keep in mind the distinction between solitude (a fine condition) and loneliness (a pain). We need to recover a sense of the good sides of being by ourselves - in order to be able to make the right choices around friendship and love.
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Why We May Be Angry Rather Than Sad
Behind many of our moods of depression lies something surprising: anger. Anger that hasn’t had the chance to know and express itself frequently curdles into depression – something we should bear in mind when trying to dig ourselves out of our saddest states of mind.
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Hours As a Mongolian Structural Professional
We continue our series about working lives around the world - a chance to reflect on our own attitudes to work from within a broader context. Here we meet an architect from the capital of Mongolia, Ulan Bator.
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Sleep and Mental Health
It can be surprisingly difficult for us to accept that a major cause of much of our mental distress may be nothing so dramatic as a lack of sleep. Getting better requires us to take our need for sleep seriously.
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A Definite Way to Get Over Your Ex (This Will Surprise You)
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Stuck in a loop of longing? This film suggests a radical cure for heartbreak. Instead of trying to forget your ex, try to imagine—in vivid, realistic detail—exactly what it would be like to have them back. Not the highlight reel, but the Tuesday afternoon arguments, the familiar disappointments, and the long s
What Your Parents Made You Do for Devotion…
Every parent offers their child one of three possible answers to the question ‘what do I need to be loved?’ This answer will shape not just their earliest years, but the course of their adult lives.
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“The moment babies are born, their minds are dominated by a powerful implicit question: What do I need to d
How Do You Like to Be Comforted?
To make a relationship work, it’s vital to try to understand how your partner wants you to behave when they are sad and down. Surprisingly, all of us want to be comforted in quite different ways.
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What Love Really Is and Why It Matters
We talk a lot about love without fully understanding exactly what it means. True love is less an appreciation of strength than a tolerance of (and kindness towards) what is weak and misshapen in another person.
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Why Some Adults Can't... "Grow Their Age
In contact with given challenges, we leave behind our adult faculties and slip very quickly into a child-like spectrum marked by panic, rage, despair, terror and appeasement. The specific occasions that shift us from adult to child can serve as an individual guide to our own traumas…
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How to Lose the Fear of Being an Idiot
We tend to fear being an idiot as a terrible, remote possibility. This keeps us anxious and unsettled. Far better to accept head on, and with good grace, that we are - all of us - idiots. And that may just be OK.
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The Beginning of Capitalism
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Why Is Emotional Maturity the Most Underappreciated Asset in Today's Professional Environments? #theschooloflife
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Brazil: The School Of Life
Did you know we have a branch in São Paulo, Brazil? Discover our The School of Life branch in São Paulo (and other cities around the world).
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LITERATURE - James Baldwin
James Baldwin was a great African-American writer who understood the meaning of freedom. His work and life give us a guide to how to escape our narrow societies.
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The Life Altering Effect of Small Talk With Strangers
Taking the time to start a small chat with a stranger might be more consequential than it seems. It may even play a part in changing the world.
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Why You Aren't Sleeping (and How to Resolve It)
Our 3am awakenings are signs that we have not been doing the sort of self-reflection we need to do in order to be at – or sleep in – peace.
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In Praise of Thoughtful People
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Why do we overlook the very people who treat us best? This film explores our tragic tendency to choose drama over peace and "complicated" types over kindness. Learn why we are magnetically drawn to pain, how to break toxic relationship patterns, and why valuing reliability and niceness is the ultimate sign of
HISTORY OF IDEAS - The Creative Resurgence
The Renaissance is a historical period with some important lessons to teach us about how to improve the world today. We need to study it not for its own sake, but for the sake of our collective futures.
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Why Lasting Love Requires Vulnerability
We can state the matter starkly: we cannot be good lovers if we don’t know how to be vulnerable.
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You NEED to know this about Public Broadcasters...
We’re used to thinking that state broadcasters do something very important: but what really is their function in modern societies? A utopian proposal from The School of Life.
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How to Locate Work That Matters
Contrary to some expectations, it isn’t only money we want from work. We also need our work to feel ‘meaningful’. But what exactly is meaningful work, and where can we find more of it?
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What Does Your Inner Child Need Today?
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Feeling overwhelmed by adult life? This film explores the inner child concept, revealing how our childhood selves influence daily struggles. Learn to reconnect with your emotional needs and practice radical self-compassion for lasting well-being. #InnerChild #SelfCare #MentalHealth #EmotionalWellness #Psycholo
What Everyone Really Wants
Though each individual is unique, deep down, everyone is searching for the same thing: reassurance - a gift that is within all of our power to give.
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The Fundamental Ideas of Hinduism
We don't have to be Hindus to admire the imaginative way in which the religion seeks to align its teachings with the particular demands we face across time.
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You Will Never Guess...
Advertising beautifully alerts us to the desirability lots of things we probably don't need that much of in our lives. For its part, art also alerts us to the beauty and charm of bits of the world: but it tends to be the bits that we really do need for a fulfilled life.
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POP CULTURE: Finer Celebrities
It’s easy to criticise modern societies for being ‘celebrity obsessed’. But the problem isn’t an interest in celebrity, it’s the sort of celebrities paraded before us. We don’t need no-celebrities, we need better-celebrities.
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Why Inner Reflection Matters
Most of our mistakes come down to one crucial error: our failure to understand ourselves well enough. That’s why we need to learn the art of introspection.
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Why We Love to Suffer
Masochism is the belief that one is secretly deserving of punishment. Whilst sexual masochism can be fun, emotional masochism - which is much more common - often stems from unexamined trauma.
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How to Make a Country Wealthy
If you were setting out to make a country rich, what kind of mindsets and ideas would be most likely to achieve your goals? We invent a country, Richland, and try to imagine the psychology of its inhabitants.
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The Impact of Dishonesty to Transform Your Love Life
Relationships suffer from a fundamental tension between the desire to be honest and the fear of being abandoned. We go into relationships in order to be ‘ourselves’ but were we to really be entirely ourselves, there is a high risk we would be left. Could silence be the price we have to pay for companionship? Or is there another way?
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The Psychology of Insecure Attachment
Why do we sabotage love? This film explores anxious attachment and the roots of relationship insecurity. Learn to break the cycle of fear and build secure connections. #AttachmentTheory #Relationships #Anxiety #Love #Psychology #Insecurity
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The Insight of Pessimism
Pessimism is generally equated with a grumpy and immature kind of mood. But it is in fact at the origin of wisdom – and can even leave us feeling surprisingly cheerful.
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Why You Are Not a Loser
Despite what we might think, there are no such things as ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ in life. Those who win in some areas will lose in others - and vice versa. The task lies in working out where our true successes and failures lie.
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What Is Emotional Neglect? And How to Cope
Emotional neglect - the withholding of parental love during childhood - can have a psychological impact no less profound than other forms of abuse. Before we can start to recover, we first need to acknowledge the scale of its effects.
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Envy of What's Ahead
Some of our feelings about how the world might be in a 100 years time and more are based on an unexpected feeling: envy. It’s almost humiliating to contemplate how many of our current problems might no longer exist.
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Why Do We Often Shelter Our Parents From the Truth of Their Consequences?
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LITERATURE - Jane Austen
Jane Austen’s novels are so readable in part because she wasn’t an ordinary kind of novelist: she wanted her work to help us to be better and wiser people. Her novels had a philosophy of personal development at their heart.
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When We Fall Mentally Ill...
Mental crises can seem to come out of the blue, but their roots probably reach back years, even decades. Recovery begins only when we begin to listen to what our pain is trying to tell us.
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