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How Romanticism Destroyed Love
The set of ideas we can call Romanticism is responsible for making our relationships extremely difficult. We shouldn’t give up on love; we should jus…
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Why We Are All Hooked
When we think of an ‘addict’, certain stock images come to mind: a homeless person sniffing glue, a gaunt figure with a heroin needle in their arm. …
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Alain de Botton on Romance
The School of Life founder (and voice behind this channel) Alain de Botton lays out his ideas on love in the modern world - at a conference by Google…
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How to Attune to Your Feelings... and Why It Counts
How could we lose touch with feelings that belong to us? Where might they go? And what might be driving their loss? Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get …
2 days, 20 hours ago
The One Relationship Principle That Truly Matters
Emotional Intelligence, Daily. Start now: https://www.theschooloflife.com/subscription/ Are you mistaking pain for passion? This film delivers a vit…
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POLITICAL CONCEPTS – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The 18th century Jean-Jacques Rousseau made the bold claim that modernity and civilisation are not improvements; they’ve dragged us from a primitive …
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If Your Parents Weren't Listening to You Properly...
There are few more important tasks for parents than to be able to listen properly to their children. It’s on the basis of having been listened to wit…
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Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
This video sees Alain de Botton, Creator of The School of Life and narrator on the majority of our videos, talking at a Google event in London in 201…
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LITERATURE - Voltaire
Voltaire was one of the wisest, funniest and cleverest people of the 18th century. He continues to have lots to teach us about toleration, modesty an…
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What to Do With Your Trauma?
The word ‘trauma’ captures an acute paradox in our relationship to our own histories: some of what is most significant in our lives is inaccessible t…
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