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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POLITICAL DOCTRINE - Niccolò Machiavelli
Machiavelli's name is a byword for immorality and political scheming. But that's deeply unfair. This was simply a political theorist interested in the survival and flourishing of the state. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7
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Why You Need An Early Night
The solutions to many of life’s largest problems begin with a beautifully downbeat and simple matter: the need to get an early night. There are a host of reasons why taking to bed early should be a glamorous proposition.
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First World Predicaments
Many issues are nowadays dismissed as mere 'first world problems'. But the problems of the first world are deeply important and need to get addressed - as the whole planet will eventually have them. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/l7gIAg
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Why People Pursue Affairs
A lot of the reason why people have affairs isn’t to do with random excess horniness. It’s do to with issues of closeness and distance.
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Getting Better at Selecting Lovers
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PHILOSOPHY - Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas deserves to be remembered for reconciling faith with reason, thereby saving Western civilisation from turning its back on science and Greek and Roman wisdom.
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Why Work is Easier Than Intimacy
It’s tempting to see love as the easy bit of life and work as the harder one; but in truth, knowing how to love is often a good deal harder than managing to succeed in the work place.
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Learner Philosopher: Plato's Ladder of Love
Plato's theory of the Ladder of Love shows how you can move from a sex-focused vision of love to a love directed towards wisdom, truth and goodness. Em talks us through it.
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How To Forgive
Social life couldn’t continue if we didn’t have some capacity for forgiveness. We need to flex our forgiveness muscles more regularly though – and the best way to do so is to remember how much we’ve needed others to forgive us in the past.
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Work-Life Harmony
The idea of achieving work-life balance is a beautiful dream; it's also quite impossible, as we should realise without bitterness or frustration.
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POLITICAL THINKERS - John Locke
John Locke's greatness as a philosopher is based on his theories on childhood, his work on religious toleration and his concept of the rights of citizens. He helped to make us who we are.
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The Meaning of Life - in One Minute
It's generally good to take one's time, but there may sometimes be a need to compress all one knows into the briefest possible span. So here is our sense of what it's all about in 60 seconds.
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th Century; Affection and Sex
In the modern world, being in love with someone is always connected up with the idea of having (or wanting to have) sex with them eventually. The Troubadours of 11th century Provence, influenced by Plato, had a very different idea: for them love was independent of sex or indeed marriage.
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Secrets of Psychotherapy
In order to recover from many kinds of mental distress, there’s really no alternative but to get acquainted with psychotherapy.
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Being a Woman in Philosophy Studies
Em, 20, is a first-year student in philosophy at London University. She's also our new vlogger, capturing her experiences through the world of ideas.
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Why Do People Obstruct Their Own Success?
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Outcasts and Tragic Heroes
Our societies are really good at rewarding success; but much less skilled at dealing with failure. Is there an alternative to being dismissed as a 'loser'?
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The Most Excellent Offices Globally Do This...
Good offices are rare and beautiful creations: they have good leadership, meaningful purpose, honest communication, well-directed stress and not many ‘creativity’ days.
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Individuals to avoid falling in love with: a checklist
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Freud's Oedipus Complex Can BOOST Your Sexual Life
The Oedipus Complex is one of the strangest and most counter-intuitive concepts in psychoanalysis. However, through a certain lens it can offer us a guiding narrative about how we come, through the varied experiences of childhood, to have our own distinctive approach to sexuality.
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The Problems of Being Strikingly Beautiful
We often have time for the challenges of not looking great in a looks-obsessed world. But spare a thought for that more unusual problem: that of being too beautiful...
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How to Uncover What You Actually Actually Think and Why...
It’s one of the great paradoxes of mental life that we’re often unable to access our true feelings about important matters. We may settle, in haste or fear, on the most obvious answers. We ignore our deep truths first and foremost because we aren’t trained to solicit them.
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How To Argue With Your Partner
It isn’t realistic to aim never to argue with our partners; far better to learn how to argue fruitfully and well. This has a lot to do with allowing ourselves to be vulnerable.
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The Secret Manual to Make Friends and Influence People
How to win friends and influence people is the title of possibly the most famous book of the twentieth century. It is also one of the books most routinely ridiculed by people who think they are clever. But are they right? Or should you pay keen attention to its teachings?
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In Favor of Hugs
We live in a culture which, while it pays lip service to hugging, doesn't quite appreciate its true significance and poignancy.
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The Worry of Intimacy
Having ‘a fear of intimacy’ is considered a great sin, but it’s a very natural one, which deserves sympathy and understanding.
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Why Do Emotionally Immature Offices Tire Us? Even When the Work Is Fine?
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How to Stop Getting RATTLED Forever
The concept of being triggered, though it may at times be overused, sits on top of a hugely important concept in psychological life. One moment we are calm, the next we are catapulted into despair and terror. It may be important to know how to be scared or incensed when situations actually demand it, but it is also deeply counterproductive to be visited by powerful emotions that aren’t warranted b
SOCIOLOGY - Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno was a thinker who worried about what people get up to in their leisure time. He called Walt Disney the most dangerous man in America – and was very against TV…
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How All Unkindness Is Inherited
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Why are people cruel? This film explores the powerful psychological dictum: all cruelty is inherited. Discover how meanness, bullying, and indifference are passed down through generations—a repetition compulsion rooted in unacknowledged trauma. Learn how to break the chain, use suffering to generate kindness,
The Influence of Anger on Young Children
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What Self-Worth Is
Struggling with self-doubt? Learn what self-esteem truly is and how to cultivate it. Discover the impact of self-esteem on your relationships, career, and overall happiness. Join us for practical tips and insights on boosting your self-confidence. #selfesteem #personalgrowth #confidencebuilding
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Resilience
The route to greater resilience is to explore how well we would cope if so much of what we think we need were to be taken away from us. We would, almost certainly, manage far better than we think in our timid moments.
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Worried and Distant couples and their Phones
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The phone has created a new agony in modern love. This film unpacks the "Texting Wars," exploring how constant contact exacerbates the tension between anxious and avoidant attachment styles. Learn why read receipts and delayed replies become existential crises, and how to develop a calm communication strategy
The Avoidant Partner with the Power to Drive You Insane
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LITERATURE - Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust was an early 20th-century French writer whose seminal text 'A la recherche du temps Perdu' (In search of Lost Time) matters above all because it contains a philosophy of how we should live.
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SOCIOLOGY - Émile Durkheim
Emile Durkheim was a French 19th century sociologist who focused on what modern capitalism does to our minds - and concluded that it might, quite literally, be driving us to an early grave.
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Your Two Paths in Love After a Painful Childhood
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Did a bad childhood ruin your chance at love? This film explores the two self-sabotaging traps people with deep self-hatred fall into: pursuing cruel, unavailable partners or rejecting kind ones because their goodness feels "sickening." Discover the third option: acknowledging your "illness" and inviting a sup
Why It Can Take Us So Long to Grasp How Sick We Actually Are
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Marcel Proust - Seeking Lost Time Audiobook
Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the longest novels ever written. It's very beautiful - and in a way a little boring too. This is for all those among us who suffer from insomnia - to send you into the best kind of sleep.
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Beauty Is NOT in the Eyes of the Onlooker
We often end discussions about what’s beautiful in architecture by shrugging our shoulders and saying: ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’ This is an extremely dangerous and ultimately unfounded conception.
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The Dangers of the Good Child
Good children don’t cause problems; they always do what others expect. They seem to be on track. But there are real problems with people who never have a chance to be a little bad.
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The Agonies of Children
Society tells us some lovely sweet stories about what it’s like to have children. But there are some darker sides no one really likes to talk about, but we should – before it’s too late…
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EASTERN PHILOSOPHY: Non-Action
Wu Wei is a key concept within Daoism – and refers to a serene acceptance of events. It’s a wisdom we’re very uninclined to remember in our own times.
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The Fragility of Strength
When people close to us annoy us, and we wonder why we allowed them into our lives, we should draw vital comfort from a theory known as The Weakness of Strength.
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How to 'Grow' - The Tough Reality of Growth
Our societies are attached to a phrase which it can be a bit too easy to assume we understand. The talk is of people ‘growing’ and of having ‘grown’ which alludes to some kind of important psychological evolution and development. But what does ‘growing’ really involve? What is it we are developing a capacity to do when we so-called grow and what are we leaving behind? And, crucially, how might we
HISTORY OF IDEAS - French & English Garden Design
France and England have had two very different gardening histories that tell us as much about psychology as they do about horticulture.
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How to Choose a Decision
Feeling overwhelmed by a difficult choice? This film explores the psychological and philosophical underpinnings of decision-making. Discover how to approach difficult choices with a calm and rational mindset. Learn to embrace uncertainty and find peace in the imperfect.
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The Wisdom of Animals
Animals have a lot to teach us about wisdom if we are ready to take their quietly-delivered lessons on board.
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Paris: The Institution of Life
Nous sommes à Paris! Nous proposons d'explorer avec vous les grandes questions de la vie. Nous n'avons pas toutes les réponses, mais nous explorerons ensemble des idées inspirées par l'art, la littérature, la philosophie, la psychologie, qui devraient vous stimuler, vous consoler, vous nourrir et vous provoquer. Venez nous voir ici: http://www.theschooloflife.com/paris
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ART/ARCHITECTURE – Dieter Rams
The German designer Dieter Rams deserves our attention because he believed in products of everyday use that could be beautiful and long-lasting. He’s the ideal capitalist for our times.
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EASTERN PHILOSOPHY - The Admiration of Rocks
Chinese culture shows us a remarkable interest in rocks, as objects of beauty and philosophical wisdom. We have much to learn.
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What Is Your Partner Actually Thinking?
In relationships, whatever our professed scepticism, we frequently proceed as if mind reading were not only possible but a standard requirement and possibility in love, something of whose absence we would have every right to complain with bitterness and surprise.
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Why Tiny Things About Our Partners Drive Us Mad
Frequently the flashpoints in our relationships come not around large themes, but strangely and almost humiliatingly small issues, like crumbs near the breadboard. We shouldn’t feel bad; ‘small things’ are generally the carriers of very big ideas. We have to get better at seeing what is really at stake beneath our pettier struggles.
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How to Have a Good Conversation
We too often imagine that ‘good conversations’ are things we fall into out of luck. Far from it, knowing how to have a good conversation is a skill that can be learnt – and here are the beginning of the rules.
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Is Human Evolution still Taking Place?
Humans have evolved: are we still doing so? Very slowly perhaps, but what’s really changing is how we are adapting to the natural environment. And here, the nerds are winning.
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The Value of Being Single
One of the most important preconditions of a good relationship is a satisfactory perspective on being single. The more we are happy to be on our own, the more we will be able to exercise the correct degree of caution around finding a new companion. Discover why the bedrock of true love is happy singledom.
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LITERATURE - C. P. Cavafy
A film on the poem 'Ithaka' by the Greek-Egyptian poet Constantine Cavafy.
We spend much of our lives trying to fulfill our distant ambitions: wanting to create the circumstances in which, finally, we’ll be happy. It’s an enchanting idea but, ironically, it means that most of the time we’re restless because we’re not there yet. The present is just the tedious, dreary period we have to get through
Why We're Always Feeling Ashamed and Guilty
There’s a strange law of psychology that reveals that small children who are treated badly by their parents will always — rather strangely — blame themselves, and not their parents, for their injuries.
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How to Be Sad
There is such pressure on us to be cheerful. And yet in order properly to be content, we need to learn, sometimes, the art of being constructively in touch with our sadder, more melancholy feelings.
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How to Utilize Drugs
We’re still only at the dawn of learning how to use drugs properly – knowing what drugs we need and when we should take them. We look forward to a brighter future for drug use.
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PLATO ON: The Universals
Plato’s theory of the forms is at the centre of his philosophy and teaches us the virtues of thinking about the ideal version of things.
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A Proven Way to Get Over Your Ex (This Will Surprise You) #animation #theschooloflife #relationship
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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
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In Praise of The Tranquil Life
Quiet lives feel nowadays like lives of failure and resignation, but they may be no such thing: true ambition can lie in learning how to minimise stress and divert energy to properly important projects.
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People Pleasers in Partnerships
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EASTERN PHILOSOPHY - Kintsukuroi
‘Kintsugi’ is the remarkable Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with elegance and grace - a tradition with a lot to teach us more generally about how to handle the broken bits of ourselves.
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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
ART/ARCHITECTURE - Mark Rothko
The most unexpectedly uplifting and consoling artist of the 20th century was the abstract painter Mark Rothko, the high priest of grief and loss who spent the latter part of his career turning out a succession of sublime and sombre canvases that spoke, as he put it, of the ‘tragedy of being human’.
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The Importance of Fulfilling Sex #theschooloflife #animation #relationship
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Are "high-minded" values ruining your love life? This film explores why sexual compatibility is far more than a "base" urge—it is a fundamental pillar of psychological intimacy. Learn why ignoring kinks, fantasies, and physical alignment leads to relationship breakdown, and why true intelligence means acknowle
ART/ARCHITECTURE - Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio was one of the world's greatest architects - who launched the Classical style which influenced how we build to this day.
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Why Parents Torment Their Children
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One of the strangest and saddest phenomena of psychological life is that there are parents, too many parents, who end up - while sometimes only half realising it - bullying their own children. The bullying may take many forms. Why do parents bully their children?
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The Functions of Envy
We’re used to thinking of envy in very negative terms. But it’s an emotion we should learn to accept and – in a calculated way – learn from.
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Why You Should Get Married Today
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Why did our ancestors marry in days while we take years to "test the waters"? This film explores the fundamental shift from the premodern focus on commitment to our modern obsession with compatibility. Discover why the search for a perfect soulmate often leads to endless dating and why true compatibility isn't
LITERATURE - Edward Gibbon
The news is often determined to tell us that we live in uniquely critical times, beset by political disasters and afflicted by terrible crises and that the demise of human civilisation is surely imminent. We are encouraged to view the world - and our own lives - in bleak, apocalyptic terms. Oddly, as the great 18th century historian Edward Gibbon shows us, history can be powerfully consoling, not
How to Be Less Defensive in Relationships
If we had to make one generalisation about why relationships fail, it would be this: because of defensiveness. Defensiveness is behind a predominant share of the failure of all relationships. The difficulty is that there appears to be no way of escaping the sort of situations that can trigger defensiveness…
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HISTORY OF IDEAS - Courtesy
Looked at over time, we’re gradually picking up slightly better manners – but what are we doing now that might, in future eras, be considered bad manners?
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LITERATURE: Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy was a remarkable novelist in part because he believed in the novel as a tool for social reform, something that would enable us to become kinder, more thoughtful and more generous towards others.
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Why We Are All Addicts
We tend to imagine that we can only become addicted to a few sorts of things. But real addiction is about using something, anything, to keep our real emotions, fears and hopes at bay. There are many more addicts among us than we think.
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