Alain de Botton on Love

The School of Life founder (and voice behind this channel) Alain de Botton lays out his ideas on love in the modern world - at a conference by Google held in London in May 2016 called Zeitgeist [many thanks to them for the film].

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[clairevicidomini]

"We are dangerous and most of us are on the edge of insanity, the only people that look normal to us are the people that we just met".
This man is literally giving away free truth.
I want to hug this man so bad T^T

[hjdvshjbdshbjhd]

Every time I watch a video from this channel, I feel smarter. It's such a good escape from the typical, delicious internet filth we get caught up in so easily.

[nosenseofconseqence]

Alain de Botton makes me, simultaneously, want to get back together with my last girlfriend so I can repair and restart our relationship with everything he's taught me, and start over with someone else much more stable and suited to me and capable of receiving and reciprocating loving understanding. But one thing is for sure - Alain makes me feel much, much better about moving forward.

[meettheartist]

_"When you manage to move from seeing your partner as an idiot to seeing your partner as a lovable idiot, you've learnt a vital lesson about love which we all need to take on board."_ ❤️🌻

[relhage]

Man this dude liberated part of my soul

[marcorodvas]

best 19 minutes i've spent on youtube so far.

[Lorkin]

"I love you, but I need to tell you about the cereal" - Alain de Botton, on the topic of love.

[Nvnso]

2020. Who still comes here and feels this is super relevant?
This man is a gem.

[Shaboiyoungslippy]

"Romanticism is the single greatest enemy we face against love"

[pinkmazohyst]

I was nodding my head so vigorously for almost the whole nineteen minutes that I thought my head was going to fall off

[colinobriant]

I feel like some of Alain's comedic tone here should make it into more videos. I really liked it.

[soulure]

The idea of being generous in one's "interpretation of the behaviors of the other person" (treating a partner as a child) is also known in relationship psychology as "positive illusions" and has been found to be a primary indicator of long-term relationship duration. Absolutely love this channel and this video is one of my favorites to date. Thank you for your work Alain.

[silicalnz]

He summed up all of his videos on romanticism in under 20mins, absolutely insane ;)

[exoscalmfan]

‘being yourself around another person is a curse we should spare anyone who we care about ’ 😂😂👍

[buhagsigwasan]

"They're a little bit too healthy, they didn't satisfy friends requirement for suffering."

[OrgilB]

So this is what the narrator looks like!!

[esabkhan]

This man's every word, he speaks, should be written in double comma's.

[willferrous]

I love how after all this time following the channel, watching these long form content I can pick up points that were established in previous videos, sometimes multiple times, even dated back to the very beginning. You should definitely do more of these. They are fun as hell.

[kw]

5 mins in & thinking this guy is BRILLIANT (& funny, too)

[Ari-usgt]

Anyone else wish they could "come to him later" when he address the crowd.