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 Love Calls for Generosity
We’re used to thinking about love as a kind of admiration for perfection. But there’s another side to what love should mean: tolerance for, and imagination about, the less than perfect sides of others.
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An Instruction Manual To Yourself
We don’t need our lovers to be perfect. We need them to warn us of their quirks in good time. We need them to give us an instruction manual to themselves.
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On Being Hated
Being disliked by others is one of the most unavoidable but unpleasant realities: learning to cope without panic belongs at the core of wisdom. Uploaded 17-08-16Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/WjL6dBe more mindful, present and
What Is the Sunday Evening Feeling?
Sunday evenings have a particular atmosphere, where nostalgia mixes with dread. A lot of the emotion is at heart about a background sense that we haven’t found the meaning of our lives – and that time is running out for us. Uploaded 17-12-17Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with Th
The Risks of Losing a Sense of Self
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Have you ever encountered someone who seems to shift their identity effortlessly? This film explores the profound challenge of lacking a sense of self, often rooted in childhood experiences where authentic expression was stifled. Understand the complexities of loving someone who struggles to know themselves, a
Why We Don't Truly Want to be Nice
Being ‘nice’ sounds a bit eerie and strange. It shouldn’t really.
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The Lottery of Living
We tend to look patronisingly at people convinced they might win the lottery. But we often harbour equally misguided hopes for our romantic and professional lives.
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How not to be Irritable all the Time
At the root of some of our angriest moods lies a surprising emotion: optimism.
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Excellent Concepts From Hinduism
Even if we have no interest at all in becoming a Hindu, Hinduism offers us at least four fascinating ideas.
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Why We Need to Feel Heard
Though we all long to have our feelings and needs acknowledged, it seems that nothing is more common than for these to be neglected by people around us. We take so little time to listen to one another and to show that we have absorbed what people have told us. As a result, everyone gets increasingly angry and - deep inside - sad. The answer is to make the art of listening a global priority.Uploade
A Manual for Self Reinvention
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The Requirements of Love
When looking at the odder aspects of other people’s and our own behaviour, there is one simple-sounding question we should always keep close to the front of our minds: what did you need to do in your family of origin in order to be loved? and might you still, by extension, unconsciously be operating under these conditions.
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How to Wander in your Mind
There is a huge emphasis on having new experiences; but very little emphasis on revisiting them in memory. We would be wiser (and happier) if we learnt to travel more concertedly around the good memories we already have.
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How to Stop Playing Games in Relationships
‘I don’t play games,’ is a favourite mantra declared by hopeful people at the beginning love stories the world over. However, it can be less obvious what games playing really involves - and therefore how definitively to avoid its dynamics
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The Harsh Reality: Why Your Ex Is Ideal for Someone Else
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Ever wonder why your ex is so happy? This film explores the bittersweet truth that we often serve as the unwitting teachers for our ex-partners, helping them mature into ideal future companions. Discover how our most painful relationship struggles can become the groundwork for someone else's happiness, and—wit
What Dating Apps Get Wrong About Love
Dating apps have given us so many opportunities to find partners - but they haven't made it any easier for us to secure and build up true love. Here is a guide to how we might approach them with the necessary care.
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Philosophical Rumination
At the School of Life, we’ve pioneered a new form of Meditation we call Philosophical Meditation, designed to help with anxiety, sadness and a lack of direction.
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How To Handle Panic Attacks #animation #panicattack #theschooloflife
Panic Attacks - feelings of overwhelming worry - are a hugely normal and highly survivable feature of being an ordinary human being. What we need is simply a few rules as to how to handle them when they wash over us.
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Do We Have Free Will or Are We Predetermined?
The question of whether we are fundamentally free or determined in our thoughts and actions has been in the middle of philosophical debate for many centuries. This is our take on the subject.Uploaded 17-10-17Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: ht
How This Photo Changed the World
The first time humans saw the whole earth from space was thanks to a photograph taken by astronaut Bill Anders on the 24th December 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. The photo, known as 'Earthrise' for the first time showed us what our planet looks like from space. Its vulnerability and beauty gave rise to a new global consciousness. We should take care to pin it to the fridge and apply its lesso
Why We Ought to Be 'Childlike' in Love
Paradoxically, one of the signs of a 'mature' relationship is a willingness to be infantile with one's partner.
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The Genuine Root of Obsessive Thinking
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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LITERATURE - James Joyce
James Joyce deserves our ongoing interest for his momentous discovery of the Stream of Consciousness. Uploaded 05-08-16Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/2TKluBe more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life
How to Become a More Captivating Person
We tend to evaluate people on how interesting they are. But we are thereby liable to miss a more acute and relevant issue: how interesting does a given person make us feel? Why in the company of some do our minds quickly fill with stories, while around others, we experience ourselves as blank, dull and close to inert?
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ART/ARCHITECTURE - Louis Kahn
Could modern architects not learn to work with traditional materials while retaining the forms and the spirit of our own times? This is the question so beautifully answered by one of the greatest of all modernists, the American architect Louis Kahn. Uploaded 09-02-22Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversat
Why We Could Adore Anybody
The modern world associates love with finding one very special person in whom to pour all one's affection. But what if a deeper understanding of love amounted to something else: a far more generous universal sort of love?
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On Feeling Ugly
We all go through moods when we feel exceptionally ugly. We tend to blame our faces and our clothes, but the cause of the feeling is almost always internal. We feel ugly because things have gone wrong at a psychological level, not a physical one. Uploaded 25-01-18Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversatio
How To Manage Snobbery
The existence of snobbery explains why we work so hard and are so worried about our reputations. We are all terrified of humiliation and disrespect. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/ReltQR
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Components of Mental Wellbeing
Remaining mentally healthy requires a bit of thought and effort. Here are a few things that can help us to remain balanced and calm.
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How To Seduce Someone With Confidence
The secret of good seduction is not to idealise the person we are trying to get together with. They are – ultimately – still just another human being, whom we would in time get very irritated with if the seduction worked as well as we want. That is a thought to lend us confidence. Uploaded 17-08-17Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thoug
What If We Never Find True Love...
It's a nightmarish scenario of course, that we might never find the sort of love we long for. And yet, being prepared for such an eventuality lies at the heart of the art of living - for it is only once we are properly reconciled to the possibility of never finding love that we can be liberated from romantic ideals and can start to appreciate what remains beautiful and meaningful.Uploaded 18-03-20
Why Unbeloved People Despise Themselves
What happens to a child who is not loved properly? The answer one might expect is that they start to hate the person who doesn’t give them the love they need. Far from it. The reality is that the child becomes filled with shame. But what is shame? And how does it impact your adult life?
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POLITICAL THEORY - John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes was arguably the greatest economist of the 20th century. He discovered the idea that governments should stimulate demand during economic downturns – and was the creator of both the IMF and the World Bank. His ideas continue to underpin a lot of the modern economic system. Uploaded 23-06-17Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousa
The Impostor Complex
What holds us back from being more confident at work is often a sense that we are fundamentally different from those who succeed. We suffer – needlessly – from The Impostor Syndrome.
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How to Narrate Your Life Story
The difference between despair and hope often boils down to different ways of telling stories from the same set of facts. Some of the art of living means learning how to tell the story of our lives back to ourselves. Uploaded 21-06-17Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The Schoo
Sexual Unfreedom
We pride ourselves on living in a sexually liberated age. But we haven't in fact begun to know how to face up to, or discuss, our true sexual natures.
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Reasons to Keep Death in Mind
It isn’t macabre or nihilistic to think of death. It’s the start of a proper, braver engagement with the possibilities of life.
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What Charity Genuinely Implies
We’re used to thinking that charity just means giving poorer people money. In fact, it’s about extending sympathy to another human being – who may be us.
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PHILOSOPHY - Blaise Pascal
The French 17th century philosopher Blaise Pascal is one of the world’s great pessimists- with an unusual power to cheer us up. Uploaded 01-07-16Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/56OelBe more mindful, present and inspired. Get the
History as a Remedy for the Present Day
It can seem as if we are living in deeply, uncommonly troubled and crazy times. We should take a measure of consolation from the example of history, that teaches us that humans have always been cruel and mad – but that civilisation has progressed nevertheless.
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The Warning Signs You Keep Overlooking
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We often fail to see the red flags in those around us. This film explores the painful truth behind the adage, "when people tell you who they are, believe them." Discover how a childhood spent making excuses for difficult caregivers can prevent us from seeing the plain and simple clues others give us about thei
Pessimism for the Enamored
We’re used to thinking of pessimism as the enemy of good things, but when it comes to relationships, it can be a vital ingredient in keeping a couple together.
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The Importance of Peering Out Of The Window
We are so busy and so obsessed with our phones, we rarely take a break to do that vital and rather philosophical thing: stare out of the window.
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Excellence at School vs Excellence in Life
Many people who do brilliantly at school turn out not to do so well at life. Why?
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Why We Consider Ourselves Failures (But Actually Aren't)
Many of us are haunted by a harsh inner critic: one who is particularly fond of telling us that we are a loser. Here’s why such a critic exists – and how we can silence them.
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A Test to Measure How Good Your Parent Was
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How does a father's influence shape a daughter's romantic life? This film explores how a good father establishes a baseline for acceptable treatment, a sense of self-worth, and emotional security. Discover how his presence (or absence) can define her future relationships with men, offering a profound look at t
Alain de Botton on Romantic Ideals
The ideology of Romanticism has been fatal to our chances of long-term happiness in modern relationships. Here, School of Life founder Alain de Botton delivers a lecture at the Sydney Opera House charting a wiser course for love. With deepest thanks to the team at the Opera House.
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The Strengths of Long-Distance Relationships
Having a partner far away is normally seen as a curse. It’s time to acknowledge the many advantages of the arrangement as well.
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LITERATURE - Gustave Flaubert
The great French 19th century novelist Gustave Flaubert understood tragedy, France, the bourgeoisie and laughter. Uploaded 24-06-16Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/Aq-2UBe more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The Sc
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POP CULTURE: Taylor Swift's Legs & Environmental Crisis
One of the most maddening sides of modern life is that the media always under-reports the crucial stories, while hyping nonsense. We could get enraged and pious; but we’re better off understanding how human nature works. Getting stern isn’t going to help.
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A Test to Work Out if You're a Good Person
Whether or not we count as a good person depends on an unexpected but crucial ingredient. Find out more about whether you qualify by watching the film.Uploaded 09-09-20Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/iXhV7Be more mindful, present
How You Can Be Too Intelligent
It might strike us as odd to claim that a person might be ‘too’ clever. Yet excessive intelligence can blind us to some of life’s simplest pleasures — and most important truths.
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POLITICAL THOUGHT – Friedrich Hayek
The leading theorist of modern right-wing political movements was an Austrian economist called Friedrich Hayek.
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How We Lie to Ourselves
We are liars of genius when it comes to hiding uncomfortable facts from ourselves. But there’s real wisdom in understanding how we manage to deceive ourselves – and real utility in learning to be a little bit more honest with ourselves. Uploaded 02-01-17Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and
What Triggers an Existential Crisis?
People often speak of going through an ‘existential crisis’; but what do they really mean by the term? And when can it be useful to have it to hand?
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The Perils of Oversharing
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Why We Should Take Our Time in Love
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Is true relationship success rooted in the ability to be alone? This film explores the uncomfortable truth that making peace with singlehood isn't about finding joy in solitude, but accepting its difficulties. Discover how this radical acceptance can become your greatest strength, fostering the clarity and cou
How To Become A Fascinating Person
The secret to being an interesting person has less to do with our job or achievements than it does with how attuned we are to our abnormalities.
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PHILOSOPHY - René Descartes
Rene Descartes is perhaps the world’s best known-philosopher, in large part because of his pithy statement, ‘I think therefore I am.’ He stands out as an example of what intellectual self-confidence can bring us. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/Uploaded 11-09-15Brought to you
Learning to Be Angry
It can seem as though we all need to learn to be less angry - and that no one has any problem raising their voice and getting their opinions across. The truth is more nuanced. A sizeable number of us suffer from shyness about expressing our real needs and our true aspirations - and thereby do ourselves and others a disservice. A short film which guides us to the need to speak up when we need to.Up
How Suppressed Emotions Make Us Ill
The most curious and hazardous feature of the way we’re built lies in the difficulty we have registering what we actually feel.
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Why Our Closest People Hurt Us
A surprising amount of suffering is inflicted upon us by those who ostensibly love us. An explanation can be found by understanding the psychology of cruelty.
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The Challenge of Intimacy
Getting close to another human isn’t the trouble free process we might imagine. It’s worth understanding just how frightening closeness can be.
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Sapiosexuality: the Hurdles of Going Public (a satire)
Sapiosexuality means a powerful sexual attraction to intelligence. People who gravitate to this channel are often sapiosexuals.
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What is Transference And Why It Matters
Transference is a psychological phenomenon whereby we ‘transfer’ a way of behaving from childhood into adulthood – in situations which don’t really warrant it. It’s a big cause of trouble in relationships. Uploaded 15-08-17Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life S
Why - and how - we need to make our peace with solitude
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SOCIOLOGY - Alexis De Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville was a 19th century French aristocrat with some crucial things to tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of that once-new and now widespread political system: democracy. Uploaded 21-08-15Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription
Sufficient Is Sufficient #animation #psychology #enough
We frequently ask ourselves to be not merely good, but perfection. Our perfectionism makes us sick. We need to learn to accept the virtue of being ‘good enough’.
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The Advantages of Suffering a Mental Breakdown
One of our greatest fears is to suffer a mental breakdown. Yet, in the long run, a breakdown might just be the most beneficial thing that will ever happen to us.
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Which Long-term Relationships Will Last and Which Won't
From the outside, it seems impossible to predict whether a couple will break up or stay together...unless we fathom the fundamental reason why all breakups occur.
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Why a Walk in the Park Can Rescue Your Life
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Feeling overwhelmed by life's small failures? This film explores how the quiet indifference of nature and the mundane world can offer a powerful antidote to personal despair. Discover the profound, humbling lesson of a simple walk in the park: that by diminishing the ego, we can find peace, perspective, and a
Why We Act As We Do
A key principle governing the natural world is that animals adapt to thrive in particular habitats; what we call an animal’s character is essentially a set of traits that gives it maximal opportunity to flourish in specific circumstances. We humans are - in the end, beneath a layer of civilisation - not so different.
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LITERATURE - Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was one of the most popular writers in English in the 19th century. He deserves our attention for his ideas about sympathy, popularity and happiness.Uploaded 17-06-16Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/n41-cBe more mi
On the Value of Short-Term Love
So much in our culture emphasises long-term love; it may be time to hear a word or two in praise of the short-term approach.
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What's Still Lovely
Most of life is dreadful — which is why it's important to focus on what remains hopeful, fun or sweet. Here's a roundup to keep us going.Uploaded 26-01-22Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/V4luD Be more mindful, present and inspired
Make Your Bias Work for You
We're taught to think that 'bias' is automatically a bad thing, but everything depends on what sort of bias it is. There might be bias towards wisdom, self-understanding, tolerance and kindness - in other words, bias worth valuing. Uploaded 23-01-18Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and mo
How to Terminate a Relationship
The key to ending a relationship is not to insist on being liked by someone you no longer like.
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How to Maintain Composure With People
Remaining calm around people who annoy us is one of the great life skills. It’s also a teachable and learnable skill.
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How to Get Through This Crisis
In exceptional circumstances, we need a philosophy that can help us hold on to our sanity and sense of perspective. Here is The School of Life's suggestions for how to survive the crisis emotionally.Uploaded 25-03-20Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscrip
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