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How mental disorders play havoc with our motivation
Feeling energised to do something depends on a cost-benefit analysis that psychiatric conditions scramble in different ways - by Matthias Pillny Read on Psyche
Reasons to Remain Single #animation #love #theschooloflife
The pressure to be in a relationship, and the suggestion that anyone who isn’t in one is weird and pitiable, has very bad consequences for us all, forcing people into choices they shouldn’t necessarily have to make. 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/klPNs Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/B6Yz6 FURTHER READING “Anyone who lives alone and manifests no longing to be in a relationship is – in our times – almost automatically (though more or less secretly) viewed as both pitiable and deeply troubled. It’s simply not thought possible to be at once alone and normal. This sets us up for collective catastrophe, for it means that a huge number of people who have no innate wish to live with anyone else, and are at heart deeply ill-suited to doing so, are every year press-ganged and shamed into conjugal life, with disastrous results for all involved...” MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on RELATIONSHIPS in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLrelationships SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Download our App: https://goo.gl/g6MK6V Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ X: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Martin Stacey http://www.martinstacey.co.uk/ Neil Evan http://www.neilevan.com/ #TheSchoolOfLife
You Are Living in the Greatest Museum in the World
What if the everyday objects filling our homes—our toasters, sneakers, and packaging—are actually the artifacts of a future museum? Andy Warhol famously pointed out that if you lock a department store for a hundred years, it becomes a museum. Start your free Membership trial – 2,000+ articles, 1,000+ videos, 50+ courses, free for a week: https://www.theschooloflife.com/membership Yet we often reserve our awe only for historically endorsed relics while ignoring the peculiar brilliance of the present. In this film, we explore a revolution in living: learning to view our daily lives not as mundane routines, but as an extraordinary exhibition waiting to be appreciated right now. "One of the most penetrating things Andy Warhol once said was: ‘If you lock the doors of a department store for a hundred years, when you open them up again, it will be a museum.’ In other words, all those objects of everyday use - our toasters and sneakers, our tights and perfumes - will eventually speak to our successors of an era we don’t even notice ourselves living in..." 📖 Go deeper – read the full article (Members get full access): https://www.theschooloflife.com/article/you-are-living-in-the-greatest-museum-in-the-world/ ✉️ Weekly Lessons + 10% off your first order: https://www.theschooloflife.com/signup OUR COLLECTIONS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28XmpcEwc0qydf2jSszQFSht81E https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28XmpckOvZZ_AZjD7WM2p9-6NBv https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28XmpeUL1vz9Su7OmeghBDgmj7X https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28XmpeypJMHfNbJ4RAFkRtmAN3P https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28XmpcpxBm1RoGRx4mVKNRIrKkG https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28Xmpcp7jXVszdNruKUtHZ2zuZb https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28Xmpfv2COuuJaKzy6E2n8nSMdi https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28Xmpc1qCJ6RYYh4rKNOOlKtFIK SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon Facebook: https:/
Bringing Stoicism to Australia and New Zealand
📖 Order the latest book from Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic 10th Anniversary Edition: https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/the-daily-stoic-10 ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 🤝 Join the largest community of Stoics ever in history and get exclusive bonuses at https://dailystoiclife.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic X: https://x.com/dailystoic Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dailystoic TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic #Stoicism #DailyStoic #RyanHoliday
The Problems We Have Today Aren’t New With Rich Cohen
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You Never Graduate From Philosophy
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There Is Almost No Situation Where Hatred Helps
📖 Order the latest book from Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic 10th Anniversary Edition: https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/the-daily-stoic-10 ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 🤝 Join the largest community of Stoics ever in history and get exclusive bonuses at https://dailystoiclife.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic X: https://x.com/dailystoic Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dailystoic TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic #Stoicism #DailyStoic #RyanHoliday
Why Saying No Is a Superpower
📖 Order the latest book from Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic 10th Anniversary Edition: https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/the-daily-stoic-10 ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 🤝 Join the largest community of Stoics ever in history and get exclusive bonuses at https://dailystoiclife.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic X: https://x.com/dailystoic Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dailystoic TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic #Stoicism #DailyStoic #RyanHoliday
10 Stoic Lessons It Took Me 10 Years to Understand
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Why We Pick Difficult Partners #theschooloflife #facts #love
In theory, we're nowadays allowed to get together with pretty much anyone we like. And yet, at a psychological level, we aren't free to love just any suitable person. We have a type - and strangely and awkwardly, these types are often not those who stand a chance of making us maximally happy. 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/m0DiQ Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/Gp6LI FURTHER READING “Theoretically we are free to select the kind of person we love. We might have chosen someone else. We’re not being forced into this by social convention or match-making aunts or dynastic imperatives. But in reality our choice is probably a lot less free than we imagine. Some very real constraints around whom we can love and feel properly attracted to come from a place we might not think to look: our childhoods. Our psychological history strongly predisposes us to fall for only certain types of people…” You can read more on this and other subjects here: https://goo.gl/g7D7CP MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on RELATIONSHIPS in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLrelationships SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Alexandra Balan https://www.sashaanimates.com/ https://vimeo.com/sashaanimates #TheSchoolOfLife
Why You Should Read the Same Book Again
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Strict With Yourself, Tolerant With Others
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Why Squidward Is So Miserable
So why does happiness seem so difficult for Squidward Tentacles? Why can’t he just enjoy himself like SpongeBob and Patrick? And are there ways for Squidward to make his life more enjoyable and feel happier? As a sequel to my SpongeBob analysis, this week's video dives deep into Squidward's psychology and explores whether philosophy offers him any life advice. Support the channel: ✔️ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/einzelgangster ✔️ PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/einzelgangerco Books (affiliate links): 📖 Taoism for Inner Peace: https://amzn.to/4bN9lVB 📖 The Urge: Fall of a Stoic: https://amzn.to/3Yc77Kw 📖 Stoicism for Inner Strength: https://amzn.to/3rZU0xL 📖 Stoicism for Inner Peace: https://amzn.to/3e6myLX 📖 Loose: On Letting Stuff Go: https://amzn.to/3QVfrqM 📖 Unoffendable: https://amzn.to/35e23a5 Merchandise: 🛍️ Shop: https://einzelganger-shop.fourthwall.com #spongebob #squidward #philosophy 00:00 Introduction 02:23 Destined for greatness 05:29 An inflated self-image 11:13 An obsession with achievement and recognition 16:35 A perpetual, unsolvable discontent 21:15 The Squill to live 24:24 Art as a source of happiness or misery? 27:27 A happier Squidward
Stoicism Isn’t About Making You More Productive
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The Cure for Unrequited Love #animation #facts #fearofintimacy
The real cruelty of unrequited love is that we don’t get to know our beloveds well enough to find out their flaws – and therefore to lose interest in them gradually. The best cure for love is in essence: get to know them better. 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/iWdtx Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/P6FFo FURTHER READING “For intense periods of our lives, we suffer the agony of unrequited love. Our sorrow is accompanied by a certainty that if only the elusive being would return our smiles, come for dinner or marry us, we would know bliss. Epochal happiness seems tantalisingly close, wholly real and yet maddeningly out of reach. At such moments, we are often counselled to try to forget the beloved. We should – given their lack of interest – try to think of something or someone else. Yet this kindness is deeply misguided. The cure for love does not lie in ceasing to think of the fugitive lover, but in learning to think more intensely and constructively about who they might really be…” You can read more on this and other subjects here: https://goo.gl/NVxJUw MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on RELATIONSHIPS in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLrelationships 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/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Andrew Foerster http://www.rewfoe.com/ #TheSchoolOfLife
Why We Go Cold On Our Partners #theschooloflife #animation #fearofintimacy
Going cold on our partners is often a sign not that we have stopped caring, but that we are - somewhere deep down - furious or hurt. 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/ho0r2 Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/sIgLc FURTHER READING “The story of the path to coldness in love is well known. We start off full of affection for one another and then – with time – feelings fade. We start prioritising work; we check our phones while they’re speaking; we don’t especially want to hear how their day went…” MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on RELATIONSHIPS in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLrelationships 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/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Produced in collaboration with Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat http://tomatico.net/ #TheSchoolOfLife
What Years of Heartbreak Actually Teach Us
Relationships are profoundly complicated, but when they finally end, we often find we can summarize years of turmoil into a single, compact sentence on a Post-it note. Start your free Membership trial – 2,000+ articles, 1,000+ videos, 50+ courses, free for a week: https://www.theschooloflife.com/membership The tragedy is that while every lesson of love is simple to state, each one takes years of heartbreak and exhaustion to truly learn—and there are well over a hundred traps waiting on the syllabus. In this film, we explore the bittersweet reality of emotional education and why we secretly just want an uneducated, illiterate happiness to finally have its turn. "Relationships are hugely complicated but sometimes, when they’re over, we find that we might be able to summarise what we think the whole thing was about into pretty compact sentences. For example, we may find, to our surprise, that six years with someone is capable of being captured on something not much bigger than a post-it note like this: Never believe the promises of someone who is still working out who they are..." 📖 Go deeper – read the full article (Members get full access): https://www.theschooloflife.com/article/the-curriculum-of-love/ ✉️ Weekly Lessons + 10% off your first order: https://www.theschooloflife.com/signup OUR COLLECTIONS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28XmpcEwc0qydf2jSszQFSht81E https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28XmpckOvZZ_AZjD7WM2p9-6NBv https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28XmpeUL1vz9Su7OmeghBDgmj7X https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28XmpeypJMHfNbJ4RAFkRtmAN3P https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28XmpcpxBm1RoGRx4mVKNRIrKkG https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28Xmpcp7jXVszdNruKUtHZ2zuZb https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28Xmpfv2COuuJaKzy6E2n8nSMdi https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxNMb28Xmpc1qCJ6RYYh4rKNOOlKtFIK SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon Facebook: https
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