#217 Alain de Botton: Life As A Process

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 15 September 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Today's guest is Alain de Botton, which is very exciting, I've been a huge fan of this work for years.

He is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a ‘philosophy of everyday life.’ He’s written on love, travel, architecture and literature. His books have been bestsellers in 30 countries. He started writing at a young age. 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 brilliant The School of Life, a platform and in real life space in London dedicated to a new vision of education, emotional intelligence and self-knowledge. It shows us a path to the better lives we all want and deserve. I really recommend checking out the youtube channel, it's an incredible resource of inspiration and I always come away having learned something new.

The School of Life's latest book, published on September 2019 is a collection of essays, titled The School of Life: An Emotional Education.

I hope you enjoy this episode as I much as I enjoyed recording it - thanks for tuning in each week!

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0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to another brand new episode of Control-Or Delete.
1:07.0	Today's guest is Aland-de-Boten.
1:09.0	It is so exciting that he came on this podcast as a guest. I've been a huge fan of his work for years.
1:15.2	He is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as philosophy for everyday life.
1:21.0	He's written on love, travel, architecture and literature and his books have been translated
1:26.2	and bestsellers in so many different countries. He started writing at a young age and his first book,
1:31.6	maybe his best-known book called Essays in Love, was
1:34.9	published when he was only 23 and it went on to sell millions and millions of
1:38.9	copies. He is also the co-founder of the Brilliant School of Life which is a platform and an in real life space in London
1:45.7	dedicated to a new vision of education, emotional intelligence and self-knowledge.
1:50.8	I really actually is the one on pessimism which sounds depressing but it's actually a really
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