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Why It’s OK to Compromise in Love
We often believe that compromise in love is the enemy of good relationships. In fact, it is only via compromise that we can ever have any kind of rel…
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How to Be More Straightforward
We prefer people who are ‘straightforward’: who are direct and unambiguous about their desires and characters. Becoming more so involves untangling t…
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The 7 Things You Can Do to Build a Relationship That Works
We can spend a lot of time in committed relationships wondering, maybe with a fair amount of anxiety: do they love me? Might it all suddenly end? But…
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How to Process Your Emotions
In order to be calm and at ease with ourselves, we need regular periods where we do something rather strange-sounding: process our emotions. Here is …
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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…
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Why You Need to Have a Full Adolescence
It’s an enormous privilege to have an adolescence - and, to an extent rarely spoken about, not everyone gets the chance to have one. Adolescence isn’…
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LITERATURE - Goethe
Goethe is one of the great minds of European civilisation, though his work is largely unknown outside of the German speaking countries. He deserves o…
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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…
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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…
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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…
1 week, 4 days ago