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Social life couldn’t continue if we didn’t have some capacity for forgiveness. We need to flex our forgiveness muscles more regularly though – and the best way to do so is to remember how much we’ve needed others to forgive us in the past. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The...

The idea of achieving work-life balance is a beautiful dream; it's also quite impossible, as we should realise without bitterness or frustration. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/4D7Z1 Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get th...

John Locke's greatness as a philosopher is based on his theories on childhood, his work on religious toleration and his concept of the rights of citizens. He helped to make us who we are. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/AkAzq Be...

It's generally good to take one's time, but there may sometimes be a need to compress all one knows into the briefest possible span. So here is our sense of what it's all about in 60 seconds. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/o48sj...

In the modern world, being in love with someone is always connected up with the idea of having (or wanting to have) sex with them eventually. The Troubadours of 11th century Provence, influenced by Plato, had a very different idea: for them love was independent of sex or indeed marriage. SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondo...

In order to recover from many kinds of mental distress, there’s really no alternative but to get acquainted with psychotherapy. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/eOzFO Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The Scho...

Em, 20, is a first-year student in philosophy at London University. She's also our new vlogger, capturing her experiences through the world of ideas. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/G39Y6 Be more mindful, present and inspired. Ge...

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Our societies are really good at rewarding success; but much less skilled at dealing with failure. Is there an alternative to being dismissed as a 'loser'? Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/rEcg8 Be more mindful, present and inspir...

Good offices are rare and beautiful creations: they have good leadership, meaningful purpose, honest communication, well-directed stress and not many ‘creativity’ days. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/GTem0 Be more mindful, prese...

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The Oedipus Complex is one of the strangest and most counter-intuitive concepts in psychoanalysis. However, through a certain lens it can offer us a guiding narrative about how we come, through the varied experiences of childhood, to have our own distinctive approach to sexuality. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking arti...

We often have time for the challenges of not looking great in a looks-obsessed world. But spare a thought for that more unusual problem: that of being too beautiful... Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/zbboK Be more mindful, presen...

It’s one of the great paradoxes of mental life that we’re often unable to access our true feelings about important matters. We may settle, in haste or fear, on the most obvious answers. We ignore our deep truths first and foremost because we aren’t trained to solicit them. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, co...

It isn’t realistic to aim never to argue with our partners; far better to learn how to argue fruitfully and well. This has a lot to do with allowing ourselves to be vulnerable. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/zU8SG Be more mindfu...

How to win friends and influence people is the title of possibly the most famous book of the twentieth century. It is also one of the books most routinely ridiculed by people who think they are clever. But are they right? Or should you pay keen attention to its teachings? Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, con...

We live in a culture which, while it pays lip service to hugging, doesn't quite appreciate its true significance and poignancy. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/1MtCq Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The Scho...

Having ‘a fear of intimacy’ is considered a great sin, but it’s a very natural one, which deserves sympathy and understanding. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/xrepB Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The Schoo...

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The concept of being triggered, though it may at times be overused, sits on top of a hugely important concept in psychological life. One moment we are calm, the next we are catapulted into despair and terror. It may be important to know how to be scared or incensed when situations actually demand it, but it is also deeply counterproductive to be visited by powerful emotions that aren’t warranted b...

Theodor Adorno was a thinker who worried about what people get up to in their leisure time. He called Walt Disney the most dangerous man in America – and was very against TV… Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/KfWmT Be more mindful,...

Emotional Intelligence, Daily. Start now: https://www.theschooloflife.com/subscription/ Why are people cruel? This film explores the powerful psychological dictum: all cruelty is inherited. Discover how meanness, bullying, and indifference are passed down through generations—a repetition compulsion rooted in unacknowledged trauma. Learn how to break the chain, use suffering to generate kindness, a...

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Struggling with self-doubt? Learn what self-esteem truly is and how to cultivate it. Discover the impact of self-esteem on your relationships, career, and overall happiness. Join us for practical tips and insights on boosting your self-confidence. #selfesteem #personalgrowth #confidencebuilding Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-...

Emotional Intelligence, Daily. Start now: https://www.theschooloflife.com/subscription/ The phone has created a new agony in modern love. This film unpacks the "Texting Wars," exploring how constant contact exacerbates the tension between anxious and avoidant attachment styles. Learn why read receipts and delayed replies become existential crises, and how to develop a calm communication strategy t...