The School Of Life
Dear Friends & Neighbors,
Alain de Botton (Attribution: Fronteiras do Pensamento, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en, Presented at: WindermereSun.com)
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Recently I’ve come across a marvelous talk by a Swiss-born British philosopher, author, and speaker, Alain de Botton, who discussed various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy’s relevance to every day life. In this particular talk, Alain de Botton presented how love and marriages of twenty-first century were being shaped by a set of Romantic myths and misconceptions. Sprinkled with his warmth and wit throughout his presentation, Alain de Botton explored the complex landscape of a modern relationship, presenting a realistic case study for marriage and examining what it might mean to love, to be loved, and to stay in love. In this talk, he discusses his stunning new novel The Course of Love, a philosophical novel about modern relationships, in the video “Alain de Botton: On Love, Sydney Opera House“, below:
Emotional Education is at the core of what we need to lead a fulfilled life – and is what The School of Life teaches online and in physical branches around the world. In this film, founder of The School, Alain de Botton discusses what emotional education is – and why we so badly need it. He also introduces the School’s new book, AN EMOTIONAL EDUCATION, available here: https://bit.ly/2mBpDN5 This lecture was recorded at the Cliveden Literary Festival on the 28th of September, 2019, in the video “Alain de Botton on Emotional Education“, below:
Alain de Botton (Author, Philosopher, and Founder of the School of Life) takes us along for one of his famous, wide-spanning tour de force, this time on finding meaning in work, consumerism, and how tech innovation may one day become emotionally intelligent, in the video “Alain de Botton: Work and Emotional Intelligence“, below:
Alain de Botton has embarked on the journey of helping the modern human to find meaning, purpose, and loving relationships by starting the School of Life. The founder of the School of Life, Alain de Botton spoke in South Korea in September, 2013, in the video “Alain de Botton on How to Live Wisely in the Digital Age, SDF013“, below:
Excerpt from wikipedia on the topic of The School of Life, in bold italics, below:
The School of Life is an educational company that offers advice on life issues. It was founded by Alain de Botton in 2008 and has branches in London (headquarters),[3] Antwerp, Amsterdam, Berlin, Istanbul, Melbourne, Mexico City, Paris, São Paulo, Sydney,[4][5] Seoul, Taipei and Tel Aviv.[6] The School offers a variety of programmes and services covering finding fulfilling work, mastering relationships, achieving calm, and understanding and changing the world.[7] The School also offers psychotherapy and bibliotherapy services and runs online and physical shops[8].
For those of you interested in the topic of progress, I’d like to share the Munk Debate on Progress, in September, 2019, in the video “Munk Debate on Progress ft. Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley, Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton“, below:
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