A Guide to Happiness – Nietzsche on Hardship
[24:02] Alain de Botton explores Friedrich Nietzsche’s (1844-1900) dictum that any worthwhile achievements …
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A Guide to Happiness – Schopenhauer on Love
[24:06] A survey of the 19th century German thinker Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) who believed that love was the mos…
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A Guide to Happiness – Montaigne on Self-Esteem
[24:13] Alain de Botton discusses the issue of low self-esteem from the perspective of the French thinker Michel de Mon…
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A Guide to Happiness: Socrates on Self-Confidence
[24:13] Alain de Botton shows how the ancient Athenian philosopher Socrates (470-399 BC) can help us acquire all the se…
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Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
[6:50] “Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.” Dan Gilbert …
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Cornel West: Examined Life
[13:31] Cornel West excerpts from Examined Life, a 2008 documentary film directed by Astra Taylor. The film features e…
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Benjamin Wallace: The price of happiness
[14:40] Can happiness be bought? To find out, author Benjamin Wallace sampled the world’s most expensive produ…
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10 Questions for Daniel Kahneman
[6:06] Psychologist and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman discusses his new book – ‘Thinking, Fast and Slo…
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A.C. Grayling: The Unconsidered Life
[2:14] Philosopher and author AC Grayling on thinking critically and being a well-informed citizen of the world. [Sou…
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Lecture 20: The Good Life – Happiness
[47:35] Paul Bloom: Introduction to Psychology The last lecture in the course wraps up the discussion of clinical psyc…
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