Alain De Botton: How To Make Real Connections | GREAT MOMENTS
Great Company with Jamie Laing
Jampot
4.6 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Making connections and building relationships in the age of social media is hard. Many of us are having to relearn what it means to really click with another person, beyond the swipe culture of dating apps and the pressure to live up to the ‘perfect’ relationships we see online.
Alain De Botton is a modern-day philosopher who founded the School of Life to help people understand the aspects of life we don’t get taught at school.
In this Great Moment, he explains how love doesn’t just need closeness, it also needs distance, and how that space can help us better understand our partners.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, I'm Jamie Lang and this is Great Moments. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey guys, how you doing? Welcome back to another Great Moments. Today I'm really excited for you to listen to this because we have got Alain de Botton on Great Moments. Now, this episode is still one of those episodes that people come |
| 0:21.1 | up to you on the street and say, I love that episode, Jamie. It's so good. It's full of just, |
| 0:26.0 | eye-opening conversations that I never thought I'd have. Now, I love the way Alan looks at life. |
| 0:31.4 | He's so measured and kind of thoughtful and has so much knowledge to share. So in this great |
| 0:36.4 | moment, he talks about what love really means in adult |
| 0:38.4 | relationships, where the ick actually comes from. And he had some really interesting stuff to say |
| 0:44.2 | about comedians and why they often come from unhappy childhoods. All of that is in the episode. |
| 0:49.0 | I also asked Alan about my own relationship with my wife Sophie, which was very risky. I have to admit |
| 0:53.6 | because he's a relationship expert. And he also shared some fascinating stuff about attachment styles. Okay, I really |
| 0:58.9 | hope you enjoy this. Great moments. And don't forget to go and check out other amazing guests |
| 1:02.8 | on Great Company. Just search Great Company wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like this |
| 1:07.7 | little clip, click on the show notes, click on the link, and it'll take you to the full episode. |
| 1:12.0 | And don't forget to subscribe. |
| 1:14.1 | Okay, enjoy this great moments with Alan de Bottan. |
| 1:21.3 | Many entertainers, entertainment was not a choice. |
| 1:26.4 | It was a necessity. |
| 1:27.1 | They needed to entertain because someone |
| 1:30.1 | around them, maybe, you know, many people around them, couldn't quite bear certain things. So, |
| 1:35.8 | I've noticed just sort of empirically that people who are very funny often grew up in circumstances |
| 1:43.9 | that were not funny at all, |
| 1:46.0 | and where the humor that they're excellent at deploying is essentially a way of |
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