Anxiety is an almost permanent feature of contemporary life - and therefore Calm has become one of the most necessary virtues. If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Please help us by subscribing to our channel: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Mutiny Filmhouse http://www.mutinyfilmhouse.com/ #TheSchoolOfLife

The School of Life looks at the philosophy of Martin Heidegger - in the kitchen. SUBSCRIBE to our channel for new films every week: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Khyan http://www.youtube.com/user/Khyan1 Music by Todd Bryanton - http://youtube.com/lildeucedeuce #TheSchoolOfLife

The fundamentals about History and why we need it. SUBSCRIBE to our channel for new films every week: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Mad Adam http://www.madadamfilms.co.uk #TheSchoolOfLife

Telling someone you don t want to be with them is always difficult. SUBSCRIBE to our channel for new films every week: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Khyan http://www.youtube.com/Khyan With special thanks to Roisin O Mahony - for her work on this film and others and all her help with The School of Life. To see more of her work, please see: https://www.youtube.com/user/RoisinandChiara #TheSchoolOfLife

The Buddha s philosophy teaches us that our desires are at the root of our restlessness - and that calm can be achieved through willpower and spiritual exercise. If you like our films, take a look at our full shop too: https://goo.gl/aGTlez FURTHER READING “The story of the Buddha’s life, like all of Buddhism, is a story about confronting suffering. He was born between the sixth and fourth century B.C., the son of a wealthy king in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal. It was prophesied that the young Buddha — then called Siddhartha Gautama — would either become the emperor of India or a very holy man. Since Siddhartha’s father desperately wanted him to be the former, he kept the child isolated in a palace with every imaginable luxury: jewels, servants, lotus ponds, even beautiful dancing women…” You can read more on this and many other topics on our blog TheBookofLife.org: https://goo.gl/mwCD2u MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: https://goo.gl/u6CT7k More films on SELF in our playlist below: http://bit.ly/TSOLself Do you speak a different language to English? Did you know you can submit Subtitles on all of our videos on YouTube? For instructions how to do this click here: https://goo.gl/kW1RA6 SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Mad Adam http://www.madadamfilms.co.uk #TheSchoolOfLife

Come and study at the School of Life. Follow our Curriculum, a strand of our channel which is about the greatest thinkers in the history of humanity. If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ SUBSCRIBE to our channel to improve your mind with a new film every other day: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Mad Adam http://www.madadamfilms.co.uk #TheSchoolOfLife

Sigmund Freud, the inventor of psychoanalysis, appreciated the many ways in which our minds are troubled and anxious. It isn t us in particular: it s the human condition. Find out more about how Freud thought in our Great Thinkers : https://goo.gl/toR8m8 If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/7JluX0 FURTHER READING “He described himself as an obsessional neurotic. For although the father of modern psychology told us so much about our inner lives, he was touchingly vulnerable himself....” You can read more on this and many other topics on our blog TheBookofLife.org: https://goo.gl/WtiV8v MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: https://goo.gl/NJ702c More films on PSYCHOTHERAPY in our playlist below: http://bit.ly/TSOLpsychotherapy Do you speak a different language to English? Did you know you can submit Subtitles on all of our videos on YouTube? For instructions how to do this click here: https://goo.gl/fUMMxh SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Mad Adam http://www.madadamfilms.co.uk #TheSchoolOfLife

Status anxiety is that fear we might get when, at a party, someone asks us what we do for a living. If you like our films, take a look at our full shop too: https://goo.gl/oO4rpA FURTHER READING “The Italian luxury car maker Ferrari has unveiled its newest supercar. Named the Ferrari California, it will cost 153,000 GBP and have a maximum speed of 200mph. It is powered by a mighty 3.8 litre twin turbo-charged V8 engine which produces 560 horse-power – equivalent to nearly six Ford Fiestas – and will accelerate from zero to 62mph in just 3.6 seconds. It’s easy to be sarcastic at this point. We know, because we hear it so often, that we live in a crazily materialistic society where people buy luxury goods because they are greedy...” You can read more on this and many other topics on our blog TheBookofLife.org: https://goo.gl/X4koE8 MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: https://goo.gl/nPw8Vt More films on CAPITALISM in our playlist below: http://bit.ly/TSOLcapitalism Do you speak a different language to English? Did you know you can submit Subtitles on all of our videos on YouTube? For instructions how to do this click here: https://goo.gl/4kD1Ut SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Scott Coello http://www.cribble.net #TheSchoolOfLife

Cows are unexpected and unheralded philosophers. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche writes: "Unless we change (or be converted) and become as cows, we shall not enter the kingdom of heaven." SUBSCRIBE to our channel: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Stephen Henderson http://www.thehabitofseeing.com #TheSchoolOfLife

Behind many of our moods of depression lies something surprising: anger. Anger that hasn’t had the chance to know and express itself frequently curdles into depression – something we should bear in mind when trying to dig ourselves out of our saddest states of mind. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/G4Fm04 Join our mailing list: http://bit.ly/2e0TQNJ Or visit us in person at our London HQ https://goo.gl/timGwd FURTHER READING “We are sometimes swept away by a mood of sadness that seems to have no cause. We wake up dispirited and listless. We lack energy and direction. Everything loses its taste and the smallest challenges feel unfeasibly heavy. We struggle to see the point of almost anything. We are – as the doctors tell us – in a state of severe depression...” You can read more on this and other subjects on our blog, here: https://goo.gl/4zAqVx MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: https://goo.gl/B8TQqS Watch more films on SELF in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLself You can submit translations and transcripts on all of our videos here: https://goo.gl/y7HAqG Find out how more here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6054623?hl=en-GB SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Lois de Silva https://www.instagram.com/loishhh #TheSchoolOfLife

Adam Smith was no uncritical apologist for capitalism: he wanted to understand how capitalism could be both fruitful and good. If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ SUBSCRIBE to our channel for new films every week: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Mike Booth http://www.YouTube.com/SomeGreyBloke #TheSchoolOfLife

We ve grown good at making many things in the modern world - but strangely the art of making attractive cities has been lost. Here are some key principles for how to make attractive cities once again. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/fwFNPV FURTHER READING “Cities are a big deal. We pretty much all have to live in them. We should try hard to get them right. So few cities are nice, very few out of many thousands are really beautiful; embarrassingly the more appealing ones tend to be old, which is weird because we’re mostly much better at making things now...” You can read more on this and other topics on our blog TheBookofLife.org at this link: https://goo.gl/6wYBGc MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: https://goo.gl/RWcyzt Watch more films on CAPITALISM in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLcapitalism Do you speak a different language to English? Did you know you can submit Subtitles on all of our videos on YouTube? For instructions how to do this click here: https://goo.gl/O5WaZT SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Vale Productions http://www.valeproductions.co.uk #TheSchoolOfLife

The most romantic thing you can do is realise that there s no such thing as the right person . Everyone is a bit wrong in fascinating ways - not least, you. And that s OK... SUBSCRIBE to our channel for new films every week: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with James Morr https://www.youtube.com/user/SpastikChuwawa and also: Tommy Williamson: http://youtube.com/bricknerdTV Music credit: "There is Romance" Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" #TheSchoolOfLife

When is it right to settle down with someone? How can one be sure one s ready? Check out the slightly surprising but very useful criteria outlined in this film. If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ In this film: 1. Give up on perfection. 2. Despair of being understood. 3. Realize you re crazy. 4. Stop wanting to be loved and start to love. 5. Get ready for administration. 6. Get ready to learn. SUBSCRIBE to our channel for new films every week: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Mad Adam http://www.madadamfilms.co.uk #TheSchoolOfLife

The best way to do good in the world is not to be a philanthropist. It’s to be a good capitalist. The need to give back is generally chiefly a sign that people took too much to begin with. SUBSCRIBE to our channel for new films every week: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Damn Fine Media http://www.damnfinemedia.co.uk/ Illustrated by Julia Scheele http://www.juliascheele.co.uk/ #TheSchoolOfLife

It’s become easy to feel that all businesses are somehow bad and corrupt. Far from it. So long as they follow these six principles, any business can be good.SUBSCRIBE to our channel for new films every week: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Vale Productions http://www.valeproductions.co.uk #TheSchoolOfLife

Edward Hopper spent his life painting alienated scenes that aren t depressing in the least to look at. They make us feel less alone. He used art therapeutically: to reconcile us to the isolation inside every one of us. Please subscribe to our channel: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7] If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Khyan Mansley http://www.YouTube.com/Khyan #TheSchoolOfLife

It s often excruciating introducing a new partner to our parents. But look at it from their point of view: they are being nothing less than usurped. So go easy on them. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Khyan Mansley http://www.YouTube.com/Khyan1 Girlfriend: Rosie Holt https://www.youtube.com/user/YoungFunnyandPoor Son: Sam Swann https://twitter.com/samgswann Mother: Lesley Molony http://www.spotlight.com/1615-6751-5002 Father: John Cooper-Day http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2266449/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 #TheSchoolOfLife

We talk of love as if it were just one thing: in fact, it’s two very different moves, Loving and Being Loved. You start to grow up when you stop focusing on the latter and get involved with the former. If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Please help us to keep going by pressing subscribe: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Mad Adam http://www.madadamfilms.co.uk #TheSchoolOfLife

Melancholy is one of the most beautiful words there is; and yet it’s strangely neglected as a concept. It deserves to be rediscovered as the best way to deal with an often sad and crazy world. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Music: J. S. Bach - Erbarme Dich, in the St Matthew Passion. Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Sila Unlu http://www.silaunlu.com/ #TheSchoolOfLife