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The Importance of Hating People
The idea that we might, at points, need to create room for hatred – that mental well-being might rely on…
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The Challenges of Male Friendships
Men are lonely not through any specific deficiency on their part but because of an inherent conflict between what is required of being a man on the one hand and what is involved in being a friend on the other.
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Why Introverts Are As They Are
We become introverted or extroverted as a result of particular experiences; it is our distinctive path through childhood that determines at which end of the spectrum we are going to fall.
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The Boring Person
The boring person isn’t really boring; they are in manic flight from what is profoundly and agonisingly interesting in themselves.
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On Not Being Able to Believe Your Own Luck
It would be natural to assume that luck was something it was very easy indeed to believe in: what could…
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Relationships
The One Question We Forget to Ask Ourselves in Love – And Why
There’s one question that people who are deeply enmeshed in love – who might have been pursuing someone in vain…
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Relationships
The Brutality of Dating
The word ‘brutal’ may sound a little hyperbolic and self-pitying when applied to an activity whose chief outward requirements involve…
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Relationships
Starting New Love While Still Hung Up on an Ex
In the pantheon of modern villains of love, there is one character who stands out as worthy of particular condemnation:…
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Why We Love Our Bears
We gathered at The School of Life to discuss something unusual: our teddy bears. A group of us, all of…
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How to Steal a Very Expensive House
There’s a common assumption that the only way to own a beautiful house, or car or piece of clothing is…
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Calm
The Consolations of Deep Time
Thinking about the age of the earth is – unexpectedly perhaps – among the more consoling and calming of all…
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A Simple Exercise to Help Us Find Direction
It can be hard to know what to do next in relation to many challenges we face. Maybe we’ve left…
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Self-Knowledge
On Not Being Able to Believe Your Own Luck
It would be natural to assume that luck was something it was very easy indeed to believe in: what could…
View
Relationships
The One Question We Forget to Ask Ourselves in Love – And Why
There’s one question that people who are deeply enmeshed in love – who might have been pursuing someone in vain…
View
Relationships
The Brutality of Dating
The word ‘brutal’ may sound a little hyperbolic and self-pitying when applied to an activity whose chief outward requirements involve…
View
Relationships
Starting New Love While Still Hung Up on an Ex
In the pantheon of modern villains of love, there is one character who stands out as worthy of particular condemnation:…
View
Self-Knowledge
Why We Love Our Bears
We gathered at The School of Life to discuss something unusual: our teddy bears. A group of us, all of…
View
Work
How to Steal a Very Expensive House
There’s a common assumption that the only way to own a beautiful house, or car or piece of clothing is…
View
Calm
The Consolations of Deep Time
Thinking about the age of the earth is – unexpectedly perhaps – among the more consoling and calming of all…
View
Self-Knowledge
A Simple Exercise to Help Us Find Direction
It can be hard to know what to do next in relation to many challenges we face. Maybe we’ve left…
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