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How Emotionally Healthy Are You?
Emotional health is defined by four markers: our degree of self-love, of openness, of communication and of trust. Watch our …
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
This video sees Alain de Botton, Creator of The School of Life and narrator on the majority of our videos, …
Why Good Societies Are Pessimistic
We may associate pessimism with bad things, but at a political level, the world’s best societies are all experts at …
PHILOSOPHY – Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran is Romania’s most famous thinker: his darkly pessimistic philosophy is a perfect antidote to the sentimental cheeriness of …
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 …
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 …
Why We (Sometimes) Wish Those We Love Might Die
In the privacy of our own minds, we sometimes imagine the strangest, ghastliest things happening to those we love. We’re …