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How to Stop Being a People Pleaser
- Published_at:2018-04-12
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- description: The first 500 people to click this link will get a 2 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/tsol3 People-pleasing behavior, while ostensibly pleasant, causes enormous difficulties for us, especially in relationships and in love. We need to...
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How A Messed Up Childhood Affects You In Adulthood
- Published_at:2018-03-20
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- description: It's a humbling situation, but much about who we are as adults can be traced back to things that happened to us before our 12th birthday. Part of learning to be an adulthood means making sense of the events of our childhood. We need to spot how our...
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Why We Should Not Watch Quite so Much News
- Published_at:2017-12-19
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- description: We're always being told that the sign of a good and intelligent person is someone who keeps up with the news. But this addiction to the latest events may be a kind of illness that cuts us off from the real insights and information we need to lead good...
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Do We Have Free Will or Are We Predetermined?
- Published_at:2017-10-17
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- description: The question of whether we are fundamentally free or determined in our thoughts and actions has been in the middle of philosophical debate for many centuries. This is our take on the subject. Our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/EY3hhK...
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The Problem With Our Phones
- Published_at:2017-09-12
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- description: They are hugely useful of course but in many ways, we buy the advantages our phones give us at a subtly high price we don’t entirely recognise. Some reflections on how to live well around phones. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship...
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How to Deal With A Crisis of Meaning
- Published_at:2017-09-05
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- description: Many of us are regularly thrown off course by what we might term ‘crisis of meaning’; periods when what we are up to seems not to connect up with anything purposeful or properly dignified. It’s at such moments that we need to lean on a bigger theory...
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Why We Need Ancient Greek Words for Love
- Published_at:2017-08-29
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- description: Many of our relationship problems stem from the emptiness of our vocabulary around our affectionate emotion. We have only the minimal word 'love'. Luckily, the Ancient Greeks had a more nuanced and complicated vocabulary that we can usefully borrow...
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The Problem With Travel
- Published_at:2017-08-24
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- description: We’re used to thinking of going traveling as the easy and fun bit of life, but in fact, it’s a process fraught with hidden complications and seldom mentioned anxieties. We consider why travel is often not quite what we expect it to be – and how we...
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What is Emotional Intelligence?
- Published_at:2017-08-22
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- description: Many of humanity’s greatest problems stem not from a shortfall of technical or financial intelligence, but what we term emotional intelligence. It is through the acquisition of Emotional Intelligence that we stand to become better lovers, workers,...
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How To Seduce Someone With Confidence
- Published_at:2017-08-17
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- description: The secret of good seduction is not to idealise the person we are trying to get together with. They are – ultimately – still just another human being, whom we would in time get very irritated with if the seduction worked as well as we want. That is a...
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The Ultimate Test of Your Social Skills
- Published_at:2017-08-10
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- description: You’ll know you’ve truly become socially adept when you finally manage to make small talk with that most challenging and unforgiving of characters: a small child you hardly know. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide):...
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Why We Are All Addicts
- Published_at:2017-07-27
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- description: We tend to imagine that we can only become addicted to a few sorts of things. But real addiction is about using something, anything, to keep our real emotions, fears and hopes at bay. There are many more addicts among us than we think. Join our...
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The Cure for Unrequited Love
- Published_at:2017-07-18
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- description: The real cruelty of unrequited love is that we don’t get to know our beloveds well enough to find out their flaws – and therefore to lose interest in them gradually. The best cure for love is in essence: get to know them better. If you like our...
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Why We Only Learn When We Repeat
- Published_at:2017-07-13
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- description: Our education system is based on the idea that we can learn things once, and that they’ll then stay in our minds throughout our lives. That’s far too optimistic. Our brains are like sieves. If anything is going to remain in them, we need regular...
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How to Be Charming When Talking About Yourself
- Published_at:2017-07-11
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- description: It’s sometimes assumed that talking too much about ourselves is rude; and asking questions of others is polite and charming. But the distinction is not quite so simple. There are far better and worse ways of speaking about ourselves. We end up...
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The Problem With Perfectionism
- Published_at:2017-07-06
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- description: We aim for perfection without a correct idea of what perfection might demand from us. To strengthen our resolve, we need to improve our picture of what sacrifices any achievement will demand. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship...
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How to Narrate Your Life Story
- Published_at:2017-06-21
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- description: The difference between despair and hope often boils down to different ways of telling stories from the same set of facts. Some of the art of living means learning how to tell the story of our lives back to ourselves. If you like our films, take a...
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Why You Need An Early Night
- Published_at:2017-06-02
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- description: The solutions to many of life’s largest problems begin with a beautifully downbeat and simple matter: the need to get an early night. There are a host of reasons why taking to bed early should be a glamorous proposition. If you like our films, take...
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How To Argue With Your Partner
- Published_at:2017-05-31
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- description: It isn’t realistic to aim never to argue with our partners; far better to learn how to argue fruitfully and well. This has a lot to do with allowing ourselves to be vulnerable. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide):...
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Why we think so much about our hair
- Published_at:2017-05-26
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- description: We spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about, and in various ways ‘styling’ our hair. It’s not entirely silly; we’re trying to tell the world – through the language of keratin strands – about who we are. If you like our films, take a look at...
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How to Be Sad
- Published_at:2017-05-17
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- description: There is such pressure on us to be cheerful. And yet in order properly to be content, we need to learn, sometimes, the art of being constructively in touch with our sadder, more melancholy feelings. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we...
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Why It’s Ok to Compromise in Love
- Published_at:2017-05-15
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- description: We often believe that compromise in love is the enemy of good relationships. In fact, it is only via compromise that we can ever have any kind of relationship at all. The art of romantic compromise deserves to be rediscovered and - in its own way -...
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What Is Narcissism?
- Published_at:2017-05-10
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- description: Narcissism is the word we routinely use to describe someone self-satisfied and arrogant. But what do we really mean by the word – and are we applying it correctly? If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide):...
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How To Keep Growing Up
- Published_at:2017-04-26
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- description: We have a very close sense of the stages of development of small children. But what about adults? How do we keep developing once we are ‘grown up’? And what are the key stages of development? If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship...
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Can Exes Be Friends?
- Published_at:2017-04-12
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- description: Partners who break up frequently think that the nicest thing to do is to try to remain good friends. But this nice-sounding gesture frequently brings with it unexpected consequences. It may be better to plot a different course. If you like our films,...
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On Feeling Depressed
- Published_at:2017-04-10
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- description: There remains a huge amount of stigma around depression, but if we look at what an average human is up against, feelings of depression are entirely normal, indeed, to be expected. We don’t need to compound our misery through a sense that it’s either...
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Why Only the Happily Single Find True Love
- Published_at:2017-03-27
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- description: One of the key requirements for having a good chance of finding the right partner is not to mind too much being single. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/rgpEkK Join our mailing list:...
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Why Is Work so Boring?
- Published_at:2017-03-22
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- description: Many of us find our work rather boring and when we do, we tend to blame ourselves. But there are very large-scale reasons, rooted in history and economics, why certain sorts of modern work are both more lucrative and rather more boring than they might...
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How to be a Friend to Yourself
- Published_at:2017-03-17
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- description: The person we may find it hardest to be kind and sympathetic to is, surprisingly, ourselves. Yet being a friend to ourselves provides the only viable basis for living an emotionally fulfilled life. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we...
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How to Overcome Shyness
- Published_at:2017-03-15
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- description: The secret to overcoming shyness is to remember that others are, beneath the differences, always substantially the same as we are. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/cxa79A Join our mailing list:...
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