The Eight Rules of The School of Life

The School of Life is an organisation built to help you find serenity, resilience and connection. Here are 8 rules designed to guide you to the life you deserve, 8 key ideas to hold on to during difficult times.

FURTHER READING

“The School of Life has produced 500 films and written 5 million words. This is an enormous problem. To stand any hope of remaining in anyone’s mind, ideas – even very good ideas – need to be brief and reduced to an essence. That’s why, for the sake of our followers, we’ve summarised everything we believe down to eight key points: the credo of The School of Life…”

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[tinkageorgewilliam]

Summary:
1. We are imperfect,
2. (True) Friendship,
3. Know your Insanity,
4. Accept your idiocy,
5. Good Enough,
6. Beyond Romanticism,
7. Cheerful despair,
8. Transcend yourself.
9. Greetings from Uganda :)

[geeenn]

“You ARE an idiot” why does that sound like such a compliment with his voice

[addaelliott]

No selfhelp book has ever helped me as much as school of life's videos

[Seleno_phile]

“ Compatibility isn’t a prerequisite for love; it is the achievement of love”

[tanmayeethakur]

Every time I feel a pang of sadness or of guilt, I come to this channel. It has elevated my mood on countless occasions. Thank you to the entire team that are touching innumerable lives and changing them for the better.

[rexharrison]

I find this channel so reassuring in that I am not the only idiot and failure in the world.

[hamzasaleem]

"You do not educate a man by telling him what he knew not, ” wrote John Ruskin, “but by making him what he was not"..
I consider The School of Life videos and materials my true education..I learned with you what matters in life, what is mature love, a proper prespective on history and politics, and the value of an uneventful day..Bless you for everything you did and do

[ouitamata]

4:21 "compatibility isnt a prerequisite for love. it is the achievement of love." So this is where i have been going wrong...

[DivyanshuChowdharyJi]

I have said it before and I will say it again: "This is one of the Best Channels on Youtube."

[businessworld]

“True love isn’t an admiration for strength, it is patience and compassion for our mutual weaknesses” 🧡

[gattocat]

"Despair but do so cheerfully"

Laughs in depression

[AndreyZenperial]

Rule number 9: go out there and start implementing it

[naufalkhiyarulloh]

1. Accept imperfection
2. Friendship
3. Know your insanity
4. Accept your idiocy
5. Good enough
6. Beyond romanticism
7. Cheerful despair
8. Transcend yourself

[adotheginger]

When mr. deButtoin says "return here often" I actually feel like I'm entering a cozy room in my house that only I know about

[kirwanmactaggart]

The first rule of this game is that it is not a game.
Everyone must play.
You must love us.
You must go on living.
Be yourself, but play a consistent and acceptable role.
Control yourself and be natural.
Try to be sincere.


~ Alan Watts, from "The Book"

[daynroberts]

This channel was what aided in starting my process of recognizing and growing from my mental breakdown last season.

[ants_in_my_eyes_Wilson]

"We don't count one bit in the grander scheme. That should be a liberation."
I love this so much. I've tried to convey this sentiment to several people... for some reason, many find it quite frightening to think that, nothing actually matters. I realized when I was 20 that I'm a nihilist, and was maybe like 20 and 1/2 when I realized what a relief that is. That nothing matters. That I could fuck up monumentally, more than anyone had ever fucked up before in the world, and it wouldn't even matter at all. 100 years from now, no one will even know my name. I'm grateful for that. Still not sure how that terrifies people...

[emilytheimp]

"The School of Lofe ahs produced 500 films and written 5 Million words..."


Heck yes, let's celebrate!


"...this is an enormous problem."


Oh...

[samiyabro]

I think the rules that will really stick with me are: 'we are all imperfect' and 'transcend yourself' because it reassures us that if we trip or fall in life, no one is looking and reminds us that we will mess up but that's okay☺

[tayengn]

In loneliest nights of self doubts and painful silence, I come to this channel to talk to even if am mostly listening