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How to be Friendly
Being polite isn't enough to win one friends. We also need to learn the art of being warm: this begins with having the right sort of relationship to…
6 days, 20 hours ago
The Dangers of Thinking Too Much; And Thinking Too Little
There are dangers associated both with thinking too much - and thinking too little. The trick is to use our minds to access our most sincere, authent…
6 days, 21 hours ago
Why 'love' is an imprecise word – and three alternatives
Many of our relationship problems stem from the emptiness of our vocabulary around our affectionate emotion. We have only the minimal word 'love'. Lu…
6 days, 21 hours ago
Why We Turn Cold On Our Partners
Going cold on our partners is often a sign not that we have stopped caring, but that we are - somewhere deep down - furious or hurt. Enjoying our Y…
6 days, 21 hours ago
How to Stop Nagging and Start Teaching
Nagging is one of the most understandable but counterproductive patterns of behaviour – that kicks in when we have failed to teach someone what we wa…
6 days, 22 hours ago
Surprising Approaches to Stop Undermining Yourself
We often observe self protective strategies in ourselves with a mixture of puzzlement and embarrassment. Why are we like this? Why can’t we be more n…
6 days, 22 hours ago
How Politics Can Make Us Insane
Emotional Intelligence, Daily. Start now: https://www.theschooloflife.com/subscription/ Can world events drive you mad? Via Virginia Woolf's tragic …
6 days, 22 hours ago
Why Hegel recognized there would be days like these
The German philosopher Hegel helps us to understand that progress in societies is never linear, and that these societies may have to go through a var…
6 days, 23 hours ago
Sustaining Love Long
There are those who make it - and those who won’t. And yet it can be troublingly hard - from the outside at least - to understand why. What we can kn…
6 days, 23 hours ago
Zen Buddhism's Secret Tool
For Zen Buddhists, fireflies are not just a quirk of nature — they’re the perfect metaphor for the bitter-sweet brevity of life.
Uploaded 10-11-21
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6 days, 23 hours ago