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The True Reason We Toil So Much
We work as we do because – of course – we need to; because nothing is cheap, because the bills are incessant; because of all the good and wise and se…
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Why It Really Is All About Your Formative Years
The founding principle of modern psychotherapy - that it is all to do with one’s childhood - can sound especially irritating. Why should we be foreve…
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Open Up
There is still so much we are never quite able to tell those close to us about who we are and what we want. We should dare to have the important conv…
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Eastern versus Western Philosophies
Eastern philosophy is a great deal more popular than its Western counterpart. That’s not because Western philosophy has nothing valuable to teach us …
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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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LITERATURE - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson taught us about the presence of nature and something a little divine inside all of us. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full acc…
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Conquering Your Cruel Inner Voices
All of us have deeply unhelpful inner voices inside us, dragging us down with criticisms and unfair accusations. Wisdom involves learning how to repl…
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Peter Gabriel on Songwriting
#petergabriel #music #interview The great musician Peter Gabriel came to do an event around the corner from the School of Life's London HQ: a discus…
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A Question to Ask Ourselves When We're Down and Distrustful
There’s a difficult mood we’re in danger of falling into that’s made up of four elements in particular: low spirits, guilt, paranoia and irritability…
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Is There an Alternative to Political Correctness?
Political correctness aims for some very nice results, but its means have a habit of upsetting a lot of people. Might there be an alternative to it? …
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