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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 man…
3 days, 15 hours ago
How Parents Get In The Way of Career Plans
Most modern parents say that all they want for their kids in the world of work is that they be ‘happy’. But it’s often a good deal more complicated t…
3 days, 15 hours ago
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 …
3 days, 16 hours ago
POP CULTURE: When and Why We Cry During Movies
We might assume that the moment we cry in films is when something very sad or troubling is occurring. But the truth is rather stranger. We often brea…
3 days, 16 hours ago
Hours As a Cattle Wrangler in Cameroon
Continuing our series about working lives around the world, a cattle herder from Cameroon. SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: F…
3 days, 17 hours ago
A Working Day – Brain Surgeon, San Antonio
A new series of films by The School of Life about work around the world - a guide to helping us to think about what makes work purposeful and worthwh…
3 days, 17 hours ago
Parenting Our Inner Child Anew
All of us have over the years made efforts to become adults, it can be at once grating and dispiriting to be told that there might, nevertheless, be …
3 days, 18 hours ago
Daddy Issues
We’re used to being rather mean about people who have ‘daddy issues’. We should be more careful and more kind. Daddy issues can lead to the worst kin…
3 days, 18 hours ago
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 str…
3 days, 19 hours ago
How Successful People Approach Risk
Beyond hubris: Deconstruct the Icarus myth. This film explores the psychology of ambition, the art of calculated risk, and the limits of fear. For th…
3 days, 19 hours ago