The world needs more thinkers such as Alain de Botton. Insightful, original, and able to target towards what's important in life. Thank you!

'Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too can become great' Mark Twain (1835-1910) Dream a big dream M. de Botton

I've thought about the idea that we all need non-religious "churches" for the emotional well-being of people. Alain De Botton's videos are great!

De Botton started the "School of Life" which publishes a huge number of "self help" and "how to" material, the very thing he absolutely writes-off in this video.

My daughter overdosed about a year ago. I'm not saying a class in school and she would still be alive but it might have helped her. It wouldn't have hurt.

Love his ideas! Absolutely eloquently put forward, and they're both charming and valid. I'm a Christian, and a lot of his ideas still resound true alongside my beliefs.

What a brilliant man! im so glad i've found him! and thank you for sharing this lecture!

Alain was the first one who opened my eyes and got me to think differently. I can now acknowledge the anxieties that come with life and steer away from useless ideas implanted by religion and media. It is not and easy process... but thank you for inciting change and promoting our need for emotional intelligence !

The fact that they are mortal.. you hit a nerve right there. Thank you for this inspiring talk.

Awesome! Really grateful for such a video. As someone commented, the world really needs more thinkers like this man. Keep it up!

Wonderful... explained so many things that I was looking for answers. Boy did I have a laugh!!!😂

Loved watching this!!!

I love this man and what he says xx

I love this teacher of life You will 2 just open your mind

I love this man!

Amazing, totally agree!

We need each other - now more then ever !

Great - I love that! Agree and will implement

A very outstanding talk, i will remember this...

Thank you Mr. De Button. Truly.

I just came across three of your video's and I think you are very entertaining. Dawkins knows now that God lives. People lie when they do not feel safe, children included. Imho and experience. I have enjoyed your talks. Thank you.

Thanks for the best ideas I have ever heard dear Mr.Botton, if you , also do the most important implementation which is working on P4C . To help to change the world for better.

Wow! It’s exactly what I was looking for !

For me an enjoyable presentation. The insight about implementation was spot on. Practical people understand that an idea needs repetition before it becomes habituated, hence builders learn apprenticeship style, armies do drill, musicians practice and monks do mantras or affirmations. The intellect can spin out theories for and against anything because no idea has to be grounded. Alain at 2.24 dogmatically asserts that there is no God in the same assured manner as my religious leaders asserted that there was a God. He is gentler than they. The intellect can design a building using the head and even draw it on paper but what will that look like as a real physical building. Maybe the real problem is intellectuals in churches and on podiums trumpeting out their latest theories pumped up with an arm full of paper certificates...Peter

Philosophical Mass Media Station - a great idea! Ideas as these are sure to change the world as we know it today!!!

Wow 🙌 simply amazing

I've been saying the same thing about changing our education system my entire adult life.

He is brilliant

Wonderful!!! I'm a half-Academic because I studied 5 subjects to become a teacher. And while at University I always tried to convince my Professors and lecturers to discuss the beauty of it, the meaning of it, too that we shouldn't look at all these things so one-dimensionally. Why can't we work scientifically and absolutely dead-rationally, discuss stuff, write about stuff but THEN also indulge ourselves in the beauty of it, in the fascination we feel about the subject? Why is one aspect excluding the other? I don't get it! That's what I tried to tell these MEN (not many women out there)...and they just looked at me as if I were a hopeless, silly girl and said very disrespectful things. And if I wrote in my term papers only slightly like that (a little remakr after a paragraph or in the conclusion) they would mark me really badly....GOSH, that's why I really hate the academic world! That's why I'm a teacher because there BOTH is possible. But really, people, it's time for a change! And not only that but also the sophisticated language - it is a highly undemocratic thing. I hate the fact that a simple perseon (let's say a hairdresser) cannot profit from the education that is accessible at university or through books, because he or she simply cannot understand the language. STUPID!

Can Alain fuel Netflix with some proper programming, par example?!

He lights up the room !

I agree with you Ramara.

Absolutely correct!!!!!

Mind blowing!!!!!!

Alain, he's so wise.. I want join him, eagerly sincerely...

Bravo!

just endless genius

“There will be no end to the troubles of the state or indeed of humanity until philosophers become kings or until those we now call kings really and truly become philosophers.” ― Plato

love this guy

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Very interesting honest talk. The comment that I differ with is his opinion is the with regard to lying. He seems to place the reason for a lie solely on the infallible expectation of the audience rather than placing onus on the lack of the integrity and lack of courage of the individual telling the lie. This would make great dinner party conversation.

No politician or government truly wants happy, emotionally balanced, smart tax cows... They would never get voted back in

religion not only about repetitions and feelings as fear, not only about words - it is about special states of mind as peace that must be understood and philosophers there no tools for it. There must be practitioners as Buddhist and scientist as neurologists then practical's philosophies that wants to understood life but not that want to say all is questioning or wording

I want to marry someone like him he understand my mind

This man has cracked open my brain

Damn, the book I'm needing to write won't change the world? I guess I'll have to move on to plan B. Now ... where is plan B? I'm sure I wrote it down somewhere, now where did I put it?

This guy should meet Esther Perel and the talk should go in psychology books.

Love

"Lies are not only a problem of the liar, but of the audience". So we all stop pretending to be so perfect. None of us is and no one needs us to be.

I think that, if I were going to die now, instead of angel someone to take my hand and say to me "You did good" would be enough. I am not afraid of death, nothing scary waits me there, NOTHING at all. But I am afraid of dying without knowing that I used every moment of life in a best way possible.

"A lie is the responsibility of liar and lie-ee, and the bar of truth in a relationship shouldn't be set so high that lying is necessary." Alain appears to lack the understanding that this logic is typical of narcissists and ego-disordered people. Adequate emotional intelligence brings straightforward clarity to the importance of facing whatever consequences are due in a relationship you value and want to retain, as a rule.

Where there is religion, there is culture. Where there is culture, there is religion. You don't have either without people. Where you have people, you will have both.

The progress of a nation is directly proportional to its support and encouragement of arts and artists .Even the crappy ones who yet to pass garbage as art .

Yep! . . . Moses brought a Book of Laws down from the mountain and the institutions that came out of that Book of Laws truly speaks for itself.

I agree with the speaker. there is a verse Marc 8,36 and I will take it out of (original) context. It says "What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?". Thus whatever your gain is (might it the ultimate truth) what is the salvation you gain? (from the pain you might fear)? Isn't ignorance bliss? (Matrix quotation). Well, I do not want to take any position, but I leave to be a personal decision. There is another "quote" from one of the "alien" series. It is not so much of a question of "knowing" if there is a god, rather than a decision to make if you decide to believe. Again, this is complex and I suggest everybody should (without any prejudice) should do as they see fit.

Dear Alain , knowing Ekhart Tolle may help not to feel sad on Sunday afternoons !

Alain, if you run for prime minister of Canada I would vote for you because

Brilliant delivery! It's unfortunate that he chose to label himself atheist instead of agnostic. It would have open a door to observing the positive side of romantic love and religion as a step in evolution.

Since I do believe G-d exists the idea that the "mechanism" of religion is necessary without the actual faith that makes it possible is ludicrous. It's like saying I don't believe in science but I do believe in medicines and the positive effects they have in treating illnesses.

Please fix the problem of the synchronization picture and sound. It is a prerequisite if you want to watch this so important video

Get this guy chatting with Jordan Peterson.

The answer to the Q:" how to change the world, I believe is , by taking the P4c ( philosophy for children) seriously .

An enlightened person is not the one who understands he needs a hug, but the one who knows where to get it. I do not fault Dawkins for presenting Atheism 1.0. It is the vital 1st step. Button's 2.0 is certainly the next step, as it underscores the void. Atheism 3.0 would present the actual community, support and lifestyle needed to improve in the religion we left.

One has to believe that god doesnt exist but has to admit that we need god to comfort us. But this need is not like food and water, we won’t die without it. We have to understand that we can’t get it from god, therefore we source for an alternative, either through culture, community etc to keep us comfortable. Correct?

Regarding emotional education..a well presented insight. Alain may not know that another person Rudolf Steiner whose intellect penned the Philosophy of Freedom began training teachers 100 years ago to develop emotional sensitivity in prepubescent children.His school movement has 800 schools world wide now. The fly in the ointment though is that his mind was clairvoyant as well as logical and practical. He experienced phenomena that human eyeballs claim do not exist. Perhaps a fish will always assert that existence without water is impossible. Peter

ALAIN DE BOTTON FOR PRESIDENT

Setting aside the whole concept of religion, it is clear that the world needs to introduce emotional intelligence education into school curriculums. Kids should be trained to think critically and be taught concepts of emotional intelligence from the first day they enter a school. Schools, in all parts of the world, focus on physical education but totally disregard the importance of emotional health and well being. I might not be such a basket case today if I had an Alain in my life when I was a kid 😵‍💫

I like listening to Alan but I am curious that he didn't mention spirituality and what can it offer. The west being set in monotheistic religious doctrine struggle to understand concepts of like Spirituality and Dharma from the east. I believe there is lots to gain by understand the fundamentally different way of seeing the world and understanding our place within it.

My boy spitting straight facts

I want to join it!!! This philosophical media idea and implementation )

He mentioned how he doesn’t like self help books, but self help books are fulfilling a need in people and making a ton of money. But brilliant guy, appreciate his intellect and insight.

For those of us how see the falces of religious beliefs getting through the Walls of tribal believe that those how does believe the Way I do are my, against me hard to do. Letting go of the past and live in the now is the only ancer courage wisdom and trust that humans are beautiful is the only way. Because we are

Let’s create the constitution !

FreeDomainRadio is a philosophical mass media podcast/youtube

He raises some very important issues I completely agree with, but I don't agree with most of his proposed solutions. Having Education and Media rule as one (not only Education could have a bigger voice, but Media could permeate and pollute Education), and having both at the mercy of capitalism, sounds ill-advised. Trading health and well-being for Profit (which is what capitalism and sects are about), instead of for simply enough to meet one's needs like a country doctor may do, is a rather off-putting idea too. I'm aware that trade is the currency of many things in life, but religion wasn't about trade. People would give their money freely, within their means, for the sake of their community - not trade tit-for-tat like in a modern transaction. Having nothing to give didn't bar a poor person from redemption, and forgiveness could be bestowed on the sinner. I think like him that there's a need for institutions that cater to those emotional needs, but I hope we move forward into a world where money is not the currency by which to gain relief, where nobody reaps their heap off from another's parcel of pain and tears.

I love love love his speeches . So intelligent, so needed in this world but what if I told you it was my belief in God and my spirituality that brought me to a point where I can actually understand what he is saying when he talks of love as I’m some of his others speeches . That some of what he says lines up with what I’ve learned from the Bible. There something to the Bible . It taught me so much BUT ITS MISGUIDED RELIGIOUS PEOPLE that really give me bad juju lol. I believe in God for reasons it would take a book to explain . I sit here thinking God just used an atheist to get a great message through lol because people are pushing religion away because of those misguided religious people who took the word away from love and humility and interpreted it in away to suit their own misguided ways of believing . Anyway still love the speech . Brilliant !

Ahhh, wasn't it Niels Bohr reponding to Rutherford that it is not a matter of belive rather than an a fact that is works, when Rutherford ask if Bohr believes that the horseshoe above the door of Bohr's is really meant to be serious....

Do you think that the crowd who believe in God believe in him because they know him? No one knows God because we don't know anything. People assert their beliefs in a God they can't see and understand. What do they know about God those little and lesser people? I think that we must understand that there's a difference between religion and religious. A religion for everyone your own religion the one you live everyday life I call it the religion of the "the wise life". We must understand religion not from what religious and priests tell us to believe, to think and to do. But in the examination of life by searching for significations and signs. Being well intellectually and adequate in our search for the wise life.

Alain is a stud, a bit crazy but naive

A book?, how about the Bible?

"show me the mummy!"

This is exactly what religions teaches, you need to pay attention more..

What if a book inspires someone to get a group together and start an institution? THEN it would be fair to say that a book did in fact change the world. I rest my case Monsignor de Botton. And many, many books have changed the world in significant ways. I would mention the King James Bible and 1984 by George Orwell. Good day to you sir. JB

He basically said...Athiesm works in an educated indiviually self actualized society...But when the when emotional pain and human condition suffers...God is needed for soothing, because art music language science does not heal

I love what Alain is trying to do but I believe that Angels do exist. I wonder if he has ever encountered John O’Donahue’s ideas, blessings and beliefs.

Building an institution right now so just never mind

I feel sad that such a brilliant extraordinary man is an atheist. I am not religious but I certainly believe in God. To me, living with the perspective of a dead end lacks purpose and meaning.

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When I was a kid I thought heroes wore a cap. I ended up at 30 having the following persons as heroes: Alain De Botton, Yuval Harari, Bill Gates. My heroes fly on the wings of philanthropy, curiosity, and culture.

Emotional regulation can be taught in high schools, but they don't think it's their job.

What if there is another life? What will you do??? There will be no come back???

19:00 reminds me Carl Jung's Undiscovered Self.

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I am sad to admit that I have attempted suicide many times, and was angry every time I woke up. I would not have attempted it the first time if I had access to the knowledge that I was not the only one who sees things this way...Things are quickly unraveling for Generation Z, and we need to champion this movement if we want to see the GENUINE CHANGE we need to fix this trainwreck....

16:20 How to change the world 19:00 any time you have a lie -liar -person who can't accept the truth

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A person who says "i know there is no God but i want an imaginary angel to come and give me a hug" does not sound like a truly enlightened person to me...sounds covertly self serving to me. The dichotomy between the intellect and spirituality.

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Alain de Botton has me beat by at least 100 I.Q. Points. However, I do have the ability to follow his logic, and I don't think this is a small feat on my part. I once thought it was, until I took a real good look at folks around me and find myself astonished at the number of otherwise intelligent people who completely lack this ability.

You should go to study some basics in biology and genetics to be able to judge better on such issues as life order and I should say religions provide more interesting theories then it appears at a first glance (sounds strange does't it -;). "I know that I know nothing" thats unfortunately where we still are.