Neal Brennan interviews Alain de Botton (The School of Life) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks.

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00:00 Intro
00:33 Philosophy as self-therapy
3:24 ‘Status Anxiety’ & Career Snobbery
5:30 You Will Marry the Wrong Person
11:40 The Tragedy of Baldness
14:02 Philosopher to Psychotherapy
16:55 Healing
19:50 Putting Your Wound To Use
20:40 Self-Pity
27:35 Difficulty of Changing
30:33 Love
32:36 Religion & Spirituality 
40:14 Fatherhood
44:27 How The School of Life is Advice to Himself
45:49 Friendship
49:00 Neal & Alain become friends
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55:45 Love vs. Friendship
57:10 Ending Relationships
1:00:30 Advice & Wisdom
1:03:50 What Constitutes a “Good Friend”
1:08:50 Need for Validation
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1:18:27 What He Wishes He Could Do-Over
1:19:55 Being Flawed
1:21:35 American Ambition
1:23:55 Starting a Monestary
1:26:02 Panic
1:31:50 Philosophy as a Defense-Mechanism
1:33:40 Who Knows Themselves?
1:38:34 Reacting to his own quotes
2:01:40 Outro
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Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased).

Edited by Will Hagle

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