[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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As people, and as a culture, Alain de Botton says, we would be much saner and happier if we reexamined our very view of love. His New York Times essay, “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person,” is one of their most-read articles in recent years, and this is one of the most popular episodes we’ve ever created. We offer up the anchoring truths he shares amidst a pandemic that has stretched all of our sanity — and tested the mettle of love in every relationship. Alain de Botton is the founder and chairman of The School of Life. His books include Religion for Atheists and How Proust Can Change Your Life. He’s also published many books as part of The School of Life’s offerings, including a chapbook created from his essay Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person.

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the
0:04.4	spiritual foundation for a loving world. Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding
0:10.3	principle and animating force for our lives, a powerful love that helps us live in sacred
0:15.2	relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:22.3	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with writer and philosopher Alond Baton
0:29.0	on the true hard work of love. There is, as always, a shorter produced version of this wherever
0:34.8	you found this podcast. Hello. Hi, Christa. What a pleasure in an honor. You too. It's great to
0:43.4	speak with you again. I don't know if you remember our conversation. Of course. It was a landmark
0:47.6	in my life. Excellent. I'm glad to hear that. Yeah, I'm very happy to have you at the other
0:54.3	end of the conversation again. I'm so pleased. I've loved following what you're doing with the
1:00.4	School of Life. I'm actually speaking at the School of Life in Australia this summer. Are you great?
1:05.6	I just feel like it's making such a mark and I'm really grateful for what you're doing. That's
1:13.1	so nice. Thank you. These are troubled days in your republic. Indeed they are. In your
1:19.6	field as well. Well, yes. I know, but you make us now look like a sideshow. I know. I know.
1:25.6	Well, but I, but you know, I think, well, actually, let's start talking on the air because I'm
1:33.3	afraid we might venture into that. Of course, of course, of course. Yeah. Well, maybe we shouldn't.
1:38.0	But anyway, well, I'm ready when you are. Okay. All right. No, I just, I actually don't,
1:43.7	I don't think it's completely unrelated to what we're speaking about today. Okay. In terms of,
1:48.3	okay. In terms of, you know, human dynamics purely human dynamics under the surface, which turn up
1:56.2	on the political surface, looking like, of course, and pretending to be something else. Yes, that's
2:01.2	very interesting. Yeah. And just just, just when it is this going out soon or in a long time,
2:06.4	we're just just so I get a sense of a timescale. Actually, this one we are planning to turn around,
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