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The route to greater resilience is to explore how well we would cope if so much of what we think we need were to be taken away from us. We would, almost certainly, manage far better than we think in our timid moments. 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 Subscr...

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Marcel Proust was an early 20th-century French writer whose seminal text 'A la recherche du temps Perdu' (In search of Lost Time) matters above all because it contains a philosophy of how we should live. 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:...

Emotional Intelligence, Daily. Start now: https://www.theschooloflife.com/subscription/ Did a bad childhood ruin your chance at love? This film explores the two self-sabotaging traps people with deep self-hatred fall into: pursuing cruel, unavailable partners or rejecting kind ones because their goodness feels "sickening." Discover the third option: acknowledging your "illness" and inviting a supp...

Emile Durkheim was a French 19th century sociologist who focused on what modern capitalism does to our minds - and concluded that it might, quite literally, be driving us to an early grave. Produced in collaboration with Mad Adam http://www. MadAdamFilms.co.uk #TheSchoolOfLife ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the longest novels ever written. It's very beautiful - and in a way a little boring too. This is for all those among us who suffer from insomnia - to send you into the best kind of sleep. 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 Sc...

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We often end discussions about what’s beautiful in architecture by shrugging our shoulders and saying: ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’ This is an extremely dangerous and ultimately unfounded conception. 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:...

Good children don’t cause problems; they always do what others expect. They seem to be on track. But there are real problems with people who never have a chance to be a little bad. 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/pbaML Be more mi...

Society tells us some lovely sweet stories about what it’s like to have children. But there are some darker sides no one really likes to talk about, but we should – before it’s too late… 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/4h_cW Be m...

Wu Wei is a key concept within Daoism – and refers to a serene acceptance of events. It’s a wisdom we’re very uninclined to remember in our own times. 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/zKtzZ Be more mindful, present and inspired. G...

When people close to us annoy us, and we wonder why we allowed them into our lives, we should draw vital comfort from a theory known as The Weakness of Strength. 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/0jvNm Be more mindful, present and...

Our societies are attached to a phrase which it can be a bit too easy to assume we understand. The talk is of people ‘growing’ and of having ‘grown’ which alludes to some kind of important psychological evolution and development. But what does ‘growing’ really involve? What is it we are developing a capacity to do when we so-called grow and what are we leaving behind? And, crucially, how might we...

Feeling overwhelmed by a difficult choice? This film explores the psychological and philosophical underpinnings of decision-making. Discover how to approach difficult choices with a calm and rational mindset. Learn to embrace uncertainty and find peace in the imperfect. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conve...

France and England have had two very different gardening histories that tell us as much about psychology as they do about horticulture. 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/jLj8C Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of...

Animals have a lot to teach us about wisdom if we are ready to take their quietly-delivered lessons on board. 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/UgSrn Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life deliver...

Nous sommes à Paris! Nous proposons d'explorer avec vous les grandes questions de la vie. Nous n'avons pas toutes les réponses, mais nous explorerons ensemble des idées inspirées par l'art, la littérature, la philosophie, la psychologie, qui devraient vous stimuler, vous consoler, vous nourrir et vous provoquer. Venez nous voir ici: http://www.theschooloflife.com/paris Enjoying our Youtube videos?...

The German designer Dieter Rams deserves our attention because he believed in products of everyday use that could be beautiful and long-lasting. He’s the ideal capitalist for our times. CREDITS Brought to you by http://theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Mad Adam http://madadamfilms.co.uk #TheSchoolOfLife ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

Chinese culture shows us a remarkable interest in rocks, as objects of beauty and philosophical wisdom. We have much to learn. 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/gUQ3P Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The Schoo...

Frequently the flashpoints in our relationships come not around large themes, but strangely and almost humiliatingly small issues, like crumbs near the breadboard. We shouldn’t feel bad; ‘small things’ are generally the carriers of very big ideas. We have to get better at seeing what is really at stake beneath our pettier struggles. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio con...

In relationships, whatever our professed scepticism, we frequently proceed as if mind reading were not only possible but a standard requirement and possibility in love, something of whose absence we would have every right to complain with bitterness and surprise. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation...

We too often imagine that ‘good conversations’ are things we fall into out of luck. Far from it, knowing how to have a good conversation is a skill that can be learnt – and here are the beginning of the rules. 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:...

Humans have evolved: are we still doing so? Very slowly perhaps, but what’s really changing is how we are adapting to the natural environment. And here, the nerds are winning. 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/MXSSz Be more mindful...

A film on the poem 'Ithaka' by the Greek-Egyptian poet Constantine Cavafy. We spend much of our lives trying to fulfill our distant ambitions: wanting to create the circumstances in which, finally, we’ll be happy. It’s an enchanting idea but, ironically, it means that most of the time we’re restless because we’re not there yet. The present is just the tedious, dreary period we have to get through...

One of the most important preconditions of a good relationship is a satisfactory perspective on being single. The more we are happy to be on our own, the more we will be able to exercise the correct degree of caution around finding a new companion. Discover why the bedrock of true love is happy singledom. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands...