Neal Brennan interviews Alain de Botton (The School of Life) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks.

00:00 Intro

00:33 Philosophy as self-therapy

3:24 ‘Status Anxiety’ & Career Snobbery

5:30 You Will Marry the Wrong Person

11:40 The Tragedy of Baldness

14:02 Philosopher to Psychotherapy

16:55 Healing

19:50 Putting Your Wound To Use

20:40 Self-Pity

27:35 Difficulty of Changing

30:33 Love

32:36 Religion & Spirituality 

40:14 Fatherhood

44:27 How The School of Life is Advice to Himself

45:49 Friendship

49:00 Neal & Alain become friends

50:28 Sponsor: BetterHelp

52:30 Sponsor: Huel

55:45 Love vs. Friendship

57:10 Ending Relationships

1:00:30 Advice & Wisdom

1:03:50 What Constitutes a “Good Friend”

1:08:50 Need for Validation

1:12:30 Sponsor: Tushy

1:15:42 Sponsor: Fitbod

1:18:27 What He Wishes He Could Do-Over

1:19:55 Being Flawed

1:21:35 American Ambition

1:23:55 Starting a Monestary

1:26:02 Panic

1:31:50 Philosophy as a Defense-Mechanism

1:33:40 Who Knows Themselves?

1:38:34 Reacting to his own quotes

2:01:40 Outro

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