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The Pleasures of Discussing Rubbish with Someone We Love
We might expect that, if we could eavesdrop on the conversations of the most admirable, clever and loving couples in the world, those who had properl…
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Good Enough Is Good 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 ‘g…
3 weeks ago
A Working Day – Cab Driver, Liberia
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…
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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 …
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A Working Day – Hair Dresser, Seoul
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 weeks ago
The Appeal of Bibliophilic People
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How To Keep Growing Up
We have a very close sense of the stages of development of small children. But what about adults? How do we keep developing once we are ‘grown up’? A…
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If Philosophers Followed the News
Plato said that the world wouldn’t be right until philosophers were kings and kings philosophers. We’d add to this that it won’t be right until philo…
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Hours As a British Convenience Retail Owner
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 weeks ago
Don't Watch the News Until You've Learned This...
News organisations claim to be informing us with their bulletins. In fact, more and often than not, they are driving us crazy with needless anxiety a…
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