Alain De Botton (Replay): Life Is Not Meant To Be Perfect
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emma gannon
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🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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This episode is a replay with the brilliant Alain de Botton. He is a writer of multiple books described as a ‘philosophy of everyday life.’ His first book, Essays in Love, was published when he was twenty-three and went on to sell millions of copies. He is also the co-founder of The School of Life, one of my favourite platforms, which is an education space dedicated to a new vision of education, emotional intelligence and self-knowledge. The School of Life's latest book, is called A Simpler Life: a guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity and came out in January 2022, which I really recommend. I hope you enjoy this episode!
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| 0:58.0 | Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. This is a replay of an old episode with brilliant |
| 1:04.0 | Alan DeBoton. This is one of my favourite episodes, so I wanted to put it back out there for anyone |
| 1:08.3 | who might have missed it or wants to listen to it again. Alan is a writer of multiple books |
| 1:13.6 | described as a philosophy for everyday life. His first book Essay's in Love was published when |
| 1:18.8 | he was just 23 and it went on to sell millions of copies. He is also the co-founder of the School |
| 1:24.5 | of Life. It's one of my favourite platforms. It's an educational space dedicated to a new vision |
| 1:29.7 | of education, emotional intelligence, and self-knowledge. I love their books, I've gone to some of their |
| 1:35.3 | classes, and I also really like their products. I've actually got something on my desk which is a |
| 1:40.0 | sand timer from the School of Life, which helps me write in 25 minute bursts. And if you go on |
| 1:45.9 | there, there's so many kind of games that you can play with friends and games that you can play |
| 1:49.7 | with your partner. And it's all about connection and it's all about getting in touch with each other's |
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