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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

The Love Expert: We've Built A Loveless Society & It's Making Us Depressed! (here's the fix!) Alain De Botton

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

If you enjoy hearing about the philosophy of life, I recommend you check out my conversation with Ryan Holiday, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PafvhTSC4yE Philosophy isn’t just for universities and lecture halls, philosophy can help guide every part of your life, from relationships, work to mental health. Alain de Botton is a British author, intellectual and co-founder of the global organisation, ‘The School of Life’. He is best known for the books, ‘Essays in Love’, ‘How Proust Can Change Your Life’, and ‘The Consolations of Philosophy’. In this interview, Steven and Alain discuss everything from, the origins of mental health problems, what it means to live a good life, why perfection is dangerous, why we are chasing love rather than money and why love itself is a skill. You can purchase Alain’s most recent book, ‘A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life’, here: https://amzn.to/41zQJTF Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now: https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: Instagram: http://bit.ly/3nIkGAZ Twitter: http://bit.ly/3ztHuHm Linkedin: https://bit.ly/41Fl95Q Telegram: http://bit.ly/3nJYxST Sponsors: Huel: https://my.huel.com/daily-greens-uk Uber Trains: https://p.uber.com/creditsterms Flight Fund: https://bit.ly/48dvgCq Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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These are very valuable lessons that we need in our relationships.

0:04.0

So lesson in one.

0:05.0

Allah the Botul, best-selling author, the modern philosopher of love,

0:09.0

his goal to help you live a better, more meaningful life.

0:12.0

The average human has 70,000 thoughts a day.

0:15.0

The problem is that we don't know how to use them.

0:18.0

For example, we tend to believe we'll find the one.

0:20.0

But that belief has led to more rage, more disappointment, because we're not free to love just anyone.

0:27.0

What's problematic is that we're drawn to love stories that are echoing our childhoods.

0:32.0

And this is something that troubles so many

0:34.6

people because our past was not necessarily happy. We are all confused about love. The

0:41.0

most romantic sentence that people will say is I met this person and we didn't even need to speak.

0:45.6

We just felt on the same page.

0:47.2

Well, this leads to a catastrophic outbreak of sulking.

0:51.0

They say to you, is anything wrong?

0:52.4

Of course there is, but you're not going to tell them.

0:54.0

And the reason is that you're a romantic and you believe that your partner should have alien capacities to look into your wounded soul to understand what the upset is. But of course they can't because they're just human.

1:05.0

So what would you say are the core habits of two people who have a really successful relationship?

1:11.0

What we need is... let's talk about sex. Goodness me does it cause problems.

1:16.0

26% of people in relationships were having sex less than 10 times per year.

1:21.0

So the question is, what are we getting wrong? One of the leading

1:25.1

answers that neither party knows is there is that ding-ding that's normally a sign of a

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