The School of Life
Master your emotional intelligence with The School of Life podcast. We apply classic philosophy, modern psychology, and culture to the everyday issues that matter most: work, love, anxiety, and the search for meaning. In each episode, we explore the deepest questions of the human condition through calm, insightful audio essays designed to help you understand yourself and the world around you. Whether you are navigating a difficult relationship, seeking career fulfillment, or simply looking for a moment of calm in a chaotic world, our content offers the wisdom and perspective you need to live a more resilient life. Join millions of l...
Questions to Reflect On Every Evening
It is estimated that some 70,000 separate thoughts hurry through consciousness from the moment we wake up to the time we slip into sleep. To help us understand those thoughts we've produced five questions to direct our minds to areas which we tend to neglect, and from where trouble can most intensely arise when we do so. 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://9qq0.short.gy/XG5Y7z Learn, heal and grow; get the best of The...
Why You Keep Repeating The Same Argument
Emotional Intelligence, Daily. Start now: https://www.theschooloflife.com/subscription/ The same fight, everywhere. This film dissects the toxic cycle of feeling controlled vs. abandoned in relationships. Learn to break the pattern, communicate hurt, and build empathy. #Relationships #Communication #Conflict #Attachment #Psychology #Empathy Unlock all the content of The School of Life with a subscription to our podcast, articles, videos, and exercises, specially tailored to your needs. Get weekly insights for better relationships, deeper self-knowledge, and inner calm straight to your inbox. Sign up for more ideas, plus 10% off your first shop order: https://www.theschooloflife.com/signup/ You can...
The Requirements of Love
When looking at the odder aspects of other people’s and our own behaviour, there is one simple-sounding question we should always keep close to the front of our minds: what did you need to do in your family of origin in order to be loved? and might you still, by extension, unconsciously be operating under these conditions. 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://9qq0.short.gy/AbJqPO Learn, heal and grow; get the best of The Sc...
The Harsh Reality: Why Your Ex Is Ideal for Someone Else
Emotional Intelligence, Daily. Start now: https://www.theschooloflife.com/subscription/ Ever wonder why your ex is so happy? This film explores the bittersweet truth that we often serve as the unwitting teachers for our ex-partners, helping them mature into ideal future companions. Discover how our most painful relationship struggles can become the groundwork for someone else's happiness, and—with a touch of luck—for our own too. #RelationshipLessons #BreakupRecovery #PersonalGrowth #Exes #EmotionalIntelligence Unlock all the content of The School of Life with a subscription to our podcast, articles, videos, and exercises, specially tailored to your needs. Get weekly insights for bett...
Why Unbeloved People Despise Themselves
What happens to a child who is not loved properly? The answer one might expect is that they start to hate the person who doesn’t give them the love they need. Far from it. The reality is that the child becomes filled with shame. But what is shame? And how does it impact your adult life? 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://9qq0.short.gy/YbY86t Learn, heal and grow; get the best of The Sc...
ART/ARCHITECTURE - Louis Kahn
Could modern architects not learn to work with traditional materials while retaining the forms and the spirit of our own times? This is the question so beautifully answered by one of the greatest of all modernists, the American architect Louis Kahn. 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/lcGOn Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/IAkCj FURTHER READING You can...
Excellence at School vs Excellence in Life
Many people who do brilliantly at school turn out not to do so well at life. Why? 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/rfG0A Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/g1mhe MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on SELF in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLself FURTHER READING "We want to do well at school for...
History as a Remedy for the Present Day
It can seem as if we are living in deeply, uncommonly troubled and crazy times. We should take a measure of consolation from the example of history, that teaches us that humans have always been cruel and mad – but that civilisation has progressed nevertheless. 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/RozQA Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/AU-8l FU...
The Challenge of Intimacy
Getting close to another human isn’t the trouble free process we might imagine. It’s worth understanding just how frightening closeness can be. 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/uuFK8 Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/1Qpws FURTHER READING You can read more about this and other topics here: http://bit.ly/29vkvOI MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more...
What Charity Genuinely Implies
We’re used to thinking that charity just means giving poorer people money. In fact, it’s about extending sympathy to another human being – who may be us. 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/16JXB Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/kc4Vr FURTHER READING "It is one of the seven virtues of Christianity. It used to have a centra...
POP CULTURE: Taylor Swift's Legs & Environmental Crisis
One of the most maddening sides of modern life is that the media always under-reports the crucial stories, while hyping nonsense. We could get enraged and pious; but we’re better off understanding how human nature works. Getting stern isn’t going to help. 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/v6mcR Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/XnnJj FURT...
The Importance of Peering Out Of The Window
We are so busy and so obsessed with our phones, we rarely take a break to do that vital and rather philosophical thing: stare out of the window. 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/RmJch Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/FOjHF MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on SELF in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLself FURTHER...
Why We Act As We Do
A key principle governing the natural world is that animals adapt to thrive in particular habitats; what we call an animal’s character is essentially a set of traits that gives it maximal opportunity to flourish in specific circumstances. We humans are - in the end, beneath a layer of civilisation - not so different. 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://9qq0.short.gy/wtzpqS Learn, heal and grow; get the best of The School of Life de...
The Advantages of Suffering a Mental Breakdown
One of our greatest fears is to suffer a mental breakdown. Yet, in the long run, a breakdown might just be the most beneficial thing that will ever happen to us. 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/8BQHG Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/gpZsV FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects here: https://bit...
Why And How To Express Regret
Apologising doesn’t generally come easily – but it always tends to pay off beautifully. 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/64iMU Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/67cV8 FURTHER READING You can read more about this and other topics here: http://bit.ly/29sqp2G MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on RELATIONSHIPS in our playlist: http://bit.ly/2...
POLITICAL THOUGHT – Friedrich Hayek
The leading theorist of modern right-wing political movements was an Austrian economist called Friedrich Hayek. FURTHER READING "Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) was a political economist who had a tremendous influence upon how people in capitalist societies understand the concept of liberty. Controversially, for Hayek ‘liberty’ did not mean democracy or a commitment to a set of ‘liberal’ ideals. Rather, Hayek believed that liberty was ‘a policy which deliberately adopts competition, markets and prices as its ordering principles’......" You can read more about this and other subjects here: http://bit.ly/29ov8pg MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on PHILOSOPH...
What Triggers an Existential Crisis?
People often speak of going through an ‘existential crisis’; but what do they really mean by the term? And when can it be useful to have it to hand? 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/bsiXH Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/3WYMF The School of Life runs a global online psychotherapy service that assists clients from over 40 countries. To f...
How to Maintain Composure With People
Remaining calm around people who annoy us is one of the great life skills. It’s also a teachable and learnable skill. 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/ZDl-j Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/owJuu FURTHER READING "One of the most fundamental paths to calm is the power to hold on, even in very challenging situations, to a di...
How to Narrate Your Life Story
The difference between despair and hope often boils down to different ways of telling stories from the same set of facts. Some of the art of living means learning how to tell the story of our lives back to ourselves. 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/d3GjN Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/mtvkk FURTHER READING “At moments of...
PHILOSOPHY - Blaise Pascal
The French 17th century philosopher Blaise Pascal is one of the world’s great pessimists- with an unusual power to cheer us up. 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/56Oel Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/2uT88 MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on PHILOSOPHY: http://bit.ly/TSOLphilosophy SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the li...
Which Long-term Relationships Will Last and Which Won't
From the outside, it seems impossible to predict whether a couple will break up or stay together...unless we fathom the fundamental reason why all breakups occur. 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/DIJHC Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/PuhS3 FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects here: https://bit.ly/35ibdHq “It can se...
On the Value of Short-Term Love
So much in our culture emphasises long-term love; it may be time to hear a word or two in praise of the short-term approach. 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/j38S5 Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/gQplY MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on RELATIONSHIPS: http://bit.ly/TSOLrelationships SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us...
How To Become A Fascinating Person
The secret to being an interesting person has less to do with our job or achievements than it does with how attuned we are to our abnormalities. 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/Crh_P Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/bMOhu FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects here: https://bit.ly/3tnDnt3 “Many of...
Why Our Closest People Hurt Us
A surprising amount of suffering is inflicted upon us by those who ostensibly love us. An explanation can be found by understanding the psychology of cruelty. 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/8t_-h Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/mQ1Uu FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects here: https://bit.ly/34srQ3b “Pa...
Sapiosexuality: the Hurdles of Going Public (a satire)
Sapiosexuality means a powerful sexual attraction to intelligence. People who gravitate to this channel are often sapiosexuals. 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/gxWRB Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/tlxsH SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ X: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ ...
LITERATURE - Gustave Flaubert
The great French 19th century novelist Gustave Flaubert understood tragedy, France, the bourgeoisie and laughter. 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/Aq-2U Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/3WZPJ MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on LITERATURE: http://bit.ly/TSOLliterature SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com...
Why a Walk in the Park Can Rescue Your Life
Emotional Intelligence, Daily. Start now: https://www.theschooloflife.com/subscription/ Feeling overwhelmed by life's small failures? This film explores how the quiet indifference of nature and the mundane world can offer a powerful antidote to personal despair. Discover the profound, humbling lesson of a simple walk in the park: that by diminishing the ego, we can find peace, perspective, and a quiet sense of belonging in the vastness of the world. #Mindfulness #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #Philosophy #SelfCare Unlock all the content of The School of Life with a subscription to our podcast, articles, videos, and exercises, specially tailored to your needs. ...
When You Are Feeling Still and Numb
We cannot be permanently fruitful or creative, excited or open. There are necessary times of retrenchment when there seems no alternative but to stop. We shouldn’t panic in these times, in fact we should endeavor to make our peace with them. 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/kaXVd Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/lt6Co FURTHER READING “Ever...
LITERATURE - Virginia Woolf
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How to Leave a Marriage
The rules for how to doom a relationship are relatively easy to follow. Here are a selection that are guaranteed to blow up love. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 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/BpI74 Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/0UF8k SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook...
Why Likeable People Push Us Away
Why might kindness be so hard to bear? Why should warmth prove - on occasion - comprehensively repulsive? Why might nausea descend in the face of emotional maturity? 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://9qq0.short.gy/zqGz6G Learn, heal and grow: get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://9qq0.short.gy/RaAZCl FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects in our articles, here: https://9...
How to Terminate a Relationship
The key to ending a relationship is not to insist on being liked by someone you no longer like. 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/7sHVI Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/sq0Md MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on RELATIONSHIPS: http://bit.ly/TSOLrelationships SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook...
PHILOSOPHY - René Descartes
Rene Descartes is perhaps the world’s best known-philosopher, in large part because of his pithy statement, ‘I think therefore I am.’ He stands out as an example of what intellectual self-confidence can bring us. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Mad Adam Films http://www.madadamfilms.co.uk #TheSchoolOfLife
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Why - and how - we need to make our peace with solitude
Emotional Intelligence, Daily. Start now: https://www.theschooloflife.com/subscription/ Is true relationship success rooted in the ability to be alone? This film explores the uncomfortable truth that making peace with singlehood isn't about finding joy in solitude, but accepting its difficulties. Discover how this radical acceptance can become your greatest strength, fostering the clarity and courage needed to navigate both relationships and the wait for the right partner. #SingleLife #SelfSufficiency #RelationshipGoals #PersonalGrowth #DatingWisdom Unlock all the content of The School of Life with a subscription to our podcast, articles, videos, and exercises, specially tailored to your needs. Get weekly...
Astrophysics and the Sacred
Many religions have spent time on two things: trying to generate feelings of awe and nudging us to be kinder. Surprisingly, and unwittingly, these are tasks which astrophysics is also rather good at. 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/9VK5P Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/XfmeP SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: ...
A Test to Measure How Good Your Parent Was
Emotional Intelligence, Daily. Start now: https://www.theschooloflife.com/subscription/ How does a father's influence shape a daughter's romantic life? This film explores how a good father establishes a baseline for acceptable treatment, a sense of self-worth, and emotional security. Discover how his presence (or absence) can define her future relationships with men, offering a profound look at the quiet yet critical work of good parenting. #FatherDaughter #Parenting #Relationships #EmotionalIntelligence #Psychology Unlock all the content of The School of Life with a subscription to our podcast, articles, videos, and exercises, specially tailored to your needs. Get weekly insights for better...
Things It’s Best to Say in Latin
Latin is a language beautifully suited to expressing certain ideas with concision and grace. Here are seven phrases that sound better in the original Latin than in any other language. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/QQrhuD Join our mailing list: http://bit.ly/2e0TQNJ Or visit us in person at our London HQ https://goo.gl/JnLsm4 FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects on our blog, here: https://goo.gl/VinSq7 MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Our website has classes, articles and products...
The Extremes We Go To Evade Love
The idea of trying to avoid love sounds paradoxical in the extreme: why do we take active measures to sabotage love? 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://9qq0.short.gy/DxKw9z Learn, heal and grow; get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://9qq0.short.gy/DC05gY FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects in our articles, here: https://9qq0.short.gy/QPZWMS “The idea of...
Why We Should Resist Getting Into Arguments
We should resist invitations to argue by recognising them for what they are: attempts by the other party to rescue themselves from unbearable feelings. 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://9qq0.short.gy/SJtYvX Learn, heal and grow; get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://9qq0.short.gy/c704Jm FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects in our articles, here: https://9qq0.short.gy/wU8...
