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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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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To Have or Not to Have Children
When deciding whether or not to have children, we should acknowledge that we aren’t choosing either a ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ answer - merely deciding which form of future suffering we are best suited for.
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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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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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Are You A Sleazebag?
There’s an appalling possibility that we are – or might be becoming – sleazy. The film offers a checklist of whether this might really be a danger.
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PHILOSOPHY - Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer was deeply influenced by Buddhist thought and is in many ways the West’s answer to it: he too tells us to reign in our desires and adopt a consolingly pessimistic attitude to our struggles.
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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 Do We Often Shelter Our Parents From the Truth of Their Consequences?
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How to Get Angry Frequently
It’s remarkably easy to spend most of one’s life in a blind rage. So much of existence is, after all, infuriating. But there are other options to be painfully and slowly learnt.
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POP CULTURE: What Is Cinema Meant To Do?
We all love films, but often don’t think hard enough about the role of cinema in our lives and in society more generally.
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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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The Three Requirements of a Good Relationship
It can be hard to know what we really need from a relationship. But the task becomes much simpler if we keep in mind that every relationship requires just three crucial ingredients to work.
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Jamie Oliver Cooks a Meal for Alain De Botton
Jamie Oliver is a big inspiration for us at The School of Life, as he is a hugely talented teacher, opening an often complicated subject (food preparation) to a mass audience; we'd like to do for the health of the mind what he has done for the health of our bodies. Here Jamie - an extraordinarily generous person - comes to cook us a meal and chats to us about nutrition and well-being.
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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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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 Secret Power of Gratitude
Life constantly requires that we say thank you to people - for presents, favours and helpful actions. But expressing thanks is a far from straightforward business. To be properly skilled at it, we need to learn the art of getting specific.
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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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Why Good Societies Are Pessimistic
We may associate pessimism with bad things, but at a political level, the world’s best societies are all experts at pessimism.
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How to Seek Help When You're Overwhelmed
Feeling at rock bottom? Don't despair. This film explores how to ask for help at times of crisis and loneliness. Learn to overcome shame and find support in times of crisis. #MentalHealth #Vulnerability #Help #Support #Crisis #Resilience
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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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How To Break Your Negative Patterns - Alain de Botton on Chris Williamson
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How to recognise your patterns - and break free from them
We believe ourselves to be original at every turn while in fact we’re more commonly found rehearsing almost identical patterns in our choices and behaviors.
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24 Hours as a Baker in Mali
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Continuing our series of working lives from around the world, a baker from Mali lets us into his place of work.
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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 Psychology of Men's Loneliness
Why are male friendships so hard? This film explores the psychology of masculinity and the barriers to intimacy between men. Can we redefine what it means to be a friend? #MaleFriendship #Masculinity #Psychology #Intimacy #Loneliness #Connection
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The Strength We Develop Through Suffering
Why do simple pleasures amplify with age? This film explores the psychology of appreciation and the value of lived experience. Learn to find joy in the mundane and rediscover wonder. #Mindfulness #Aging #Psychology #Happiness #Gratitude #Perspective
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Why We're Cursed to be Lonely
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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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Mental Illness and Reasons to Live
Even if we've never spelled them out, each of us carries within us a private list of 'reasons to live'. Mental illness can threaten these reasons: to heal, we may need to seek out new ones.
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How to Make Love Persist Forever
When relationships start, enthusiasm for our partners is typically natural and intense. We think of them constantly, we want only to spend more time in their company, we delight in their many skills and accomplishments: but this early phase of powerful admiration and longing rarely lasts.
The world often explains this cooling as an inevitable result of sheer exposure. It is, they say, typical to
How to Learn to Love Oneself More
Self-hatred is a particularly vicious disease which destroys our ability to defend ourselves and to confront enemies. Here are some tips on how to make better friends with ourselves.
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8 Secrets of a Healthy Mind
Sadly, in most cases, mental illness is a chronic condition: not a one-off, but something that’s likely to recur in the future. Coping requires us to accept this - and put in place a strategy for managing our symptoms over the long-term.
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The Quiet Force of Undelivered Letters
A general principle of mental health is that the less we are able to express, the more unwell we get it. Our spirits can lighten and our horizons expand once we can find a way to lend outward form to our pains.
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Is It OK to Keep Secrets From Your Partner?
We’re taught that love requires honesty, and that secrets are anathema to healthy relationships. But there may be very noble reasons for concealing things from our partner - and instances where it is far kinder to lie than reveal hurtful truths.
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In Conversation: Alain de Botton on Excellent Company with Jamie Laing
Alain de Botton sits down with Jaime Laing on the @GreatCompanyPodcast. Together they dive into such subjects as: What is love? How do we navigate heartbreak? Why is our childhood so critical in shaping the rest of our life? And what does it all mean, anyway? Along the way, Alain walks Jamie through some of the reasons why we experience the ‘ick’, the typical emotional burdens parents project onto
How Unloving Parents Generate Self-Hating Children
Our sense of self-worth is dependent upon the love we were shown as children. The legacy of an unloving parent may be a lifetime of self-hatred, which we need to unpick in order to escape.
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How To Choose A Companion Thoughtfully
We’re given very little guidance on how to choose our partners and tend to leave it to that mysterious force we know as ‘instinct’. However, it truly pays to be a little more rational in this area and work out how our instincts operate and why they push us towards some people and away from others.
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The Genuine Power of Community
There’s a lot of pressure on us to make our individual lives interesting. But sometimes, the best experiences aren’t those connected up with our personal triumphs; they’re moments of joy at belonging with others.
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The Only Two Questions to Restore a Relationship
How can we prevent damage in our relationships? To start with we can regularly ask our partners two ostensibly simple yet hugely central and effective questions…
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The 17 Secrets to a Fulfilling Relationship
It’s often said that no one can ever really say what a good relationship is, let alone draw up a checklist for a prospective one. We politely disagree…
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Life is Not About Pursuing Happiness
Is happiness overrated? This film challenges the pursuit of constant contentment, advocating for a life of meaningful experience and psychological depth. Embrace the complexity of life and find fulfillment. #Meaning #Purpose #Psychology #LifeLessons #Philosophy #Growth
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Physical Rejection
Sexual rejection can spark off intensely powerful and destructive emotions. We should learn to tame them before they get out of control.
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Overcoming Sexual Shame
Though we live in supposedly enlightened times, many of us are still burdened with intense feelings of shame around our own sexuality and desires. Overcoming this requires us to face up to the scale of the problem - and find ways of discussing our innermost feelings more nakedly.
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How to Read Fewer Books and Get Wiser
To be considered ‘well-read’, one is expected to get through an endless number of books. Instead, like the Ancients, we should focus on the quality not the quantity of one’s reading.
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The GENUINE Political Divide
We’re used to splitting voters into right and left camps, but might there be a more fruitful division between ‘classical’ and ‘romantic’ voters? Which one are you?
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Why We Sulk and How to Stop It
We get into sulks for reasons we should strive to understand and – gently – correct.
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Guidelines for Ending Relationships
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Breaking up sucks. Do it right. This film outlines 8 ethical rules for ending relationships with respect and minimal damage. Learn to navigate the pain with integrity. #Breakup #Relationships #Ethics #Dating #Communication #Maturity Unlock all the content of The School of Life with a subscription to our podca
How to Get Out of a Despairing Mood
In moments of despair, we may be suffering not from a failure of spirit, but a failure of imagination. The way out lies in exercising our creative capacities.
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ART/ARCHITECTURE: Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was one of the great artists of the 20th century who understood the legitimate role that glamour and business should play in the production of art. He has much to teach the modern world.
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What Is Mental Health?
Nowadays, we know more and more about what it means to be mentally unwell - but what exactly constitutes mental 'health’? In this film, we’ll explore what characterises an optimally functioning mind.
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Two Reasons People End up Bad Parents
Developing a sane relationship to our own past is a crucial factor in enabling us to avoid the common mistakes of "bad parenting".
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You Are Not What You Earn
The modern world firmly equates how much we earn with how good, noble, wise and worthy of honour we are. This is a brutal misunderstanding of how salaries are determined. We need to operate with a far more nuanced view of what the money we earn says about us.
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Jamie Presents Philosophy - A Proposal
Philosophy is in trouble, because no one with any charisma or charm is speaking about it to a broad public. That's why we went to visit one of the world's greatest teachers and put an idea to him.
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Why Do We Feel So Ashamed of Wanting Reassurance? #theschooloflife
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HISTORY OF IDEAS - The Consumer Impulse
It’s only very recently in history that we’ve been able to buy more than the bare necessities. Can the history of consumption guide us to a wiser future?
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Weaponise Blushing
Those of us with a tendency to blush usually see it as a source of embarrassment. Yet blushing is a rather delightful habit: one that confirms our deep emotional sensitivity.
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ART/ARCHITECTURE - Rembrandt
We celebrate Rembrandt as one of history’s greatest painters. But his troubled life story provides us with clues for interpreting the hidden, radical purpose of his art.
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The Case for Self-Pity
Pitying yourself has terrible connotations, but it belongs to what it means to be a friend to oneself.
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Why We Should Treat Our Partners Like Toddlers
It seems like the height of patronising behaviour to look at an adult as if they were a child. But it can also be deeply sympathetic and generous.
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Why Do We Shed Our Curiosity — and How Can We Revive It?
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How to Pay Attention to Your Body
One of the most peculiar ideas of psychology is that trauma may end up ‘in the body.’ We can understand that a difficult event might be lodged somewhere in the mind - but how, and by what mechanism, might a trauma get remembered or stuck in our physical selves? Can a kidney ‘remember’ a sorrow? Can a wrist or a femur hold on to the memory of a punitive parent or a painful divorce?
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Why Comedy Signifies
We’re used to thinking that the purpose of comedy is just to help us relax and ‘have a good laugh’. But in fact, the mission of comedy is far grander and more world-changing. We should wake up to the full potential of comedy.
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Why We Turn Off People Who Like Us
Though we long for certain people to like us, an odd thing can happen once they do. What is the origin of our strange coolness towards those who show enthusiasm for us?
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How to Rewrite the 10 Commandments
The decline in belief in the Biblical 10 commandments doesn’t mean that all rules of conduct are necessarily superfluous. Here is our attempt to reimagine a set of rules for how to behave around others.
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Why You Shouldn't Put Faith in Your Feelings
It can be very hard to detect just how much our judgement is constantly affected by our feelings. We should – at points – take care to be very skeptical of our first impulses.
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The Perfectionism Trap
One of the greatest obstacles to a good life is the expectation of perfection.
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Weaponise Brand Prominence!
Many of us have very negative feelings towards brands. They’re associated with conformity, mediocrity and the suppression of individuality. But brands are in fact wonderful things: we just have to create the right sort.
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How Dreading the Future May Be a Symptom of Your Past
Our anxiety about the future - feeling that we’re destined for ruin and disgrace - may feel like a rational assessment of our present circumstances. But its roots most likely stretch far further back: to forgotten traumas we underwent in the past.
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How to Love Your Work
These days, a job needs to offer us more than financial security: we want them to provide us with status and meaning. But to feel truly satisfied with our careers, we may need to look elsewhere to find fulfillment.
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How to Stop Being a 'good' Boy or Girl
We're so used to conforming to the expectations of others that it can be hard to know what 'we' really want. Freedom requires a willingness, at times, to be 'bad'.
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Why Are People So Rude?
The origins of nastiness in other people can be deeply hard to fathom, especially if we have done nothing to them. The answer is strangely and consolingly simple…
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How to Be Kinder to Ourselves
Many of us have a tendency to be very unkind towards ourselves; made all the more pernicious by the fact that we are not even aware of doing so. To practice greater self-compassion, we need to recognise the forms our self-hatred takes - and where their roots might lie.
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POP CULTURE: Why Music Matters
Music may be the finest therapy humanity has ever invented.
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How Not to Feel Awful About Being Single
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How to Love without Dread
We regularly get into difficulties in love because we refuse to accept how much reassurance and stroking we need from the person we love. We imagine we’re grown up, we don’t want to countenance how fragile and easily wounded we might be, we don’t want to see the always susceptible and sensitive child beneath the impressive adult…
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The Genuine Source of Obsessive Thinking #ocd #theschooloflife #animation
We all are, at times, the victims of one of the cruellest and most remorseless of all mental afflictions: obsessive thinking. But why?
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Why Old Friends Matter
We all have people in our lives that we’d never start a friendship with today if we met them for the first time – but that nevertheless matter immensely to us. An essay on the importance of old friends.
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How to Find Satisfying Work
When it comes to choosing a career, we seem to face an inescapable choice between following our dreams and ‘selling out’. The reasons for this dilemma can be found in the ways the modern economy - and human psychology - work in practice.
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The Body Keeps the Score
A growing body of research suggests that mental unwellness doesn’t just take a toll on our minds; it affects our physical selves as well. We need to listen to what our bodies are telling us - and care for them as diligently as we care for our thoughts.
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POP CULTURE: The Intelligent Methods of Advertising
Adverts know us well and therefore tease us with promises of love, friendship, calm and success – but then go on merely to sell us things we don’t particularly need: like bars of chocolate or sports cars.
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