[SDF2013] Reintroducing Wisdom in Everyday Life (Alain de BOTTON) 

I like how he talks slower and in a more accessible language than usual as he is adressing non native english speakers.

He is one of the greatest minds alive. I have so much respect for him!

This man made me feel sane for the first time in my life!

I really like this guy. I’ve just decided.

Great pleasure to hear so much wisdom in such a beautiful form👏

I'm relieved that the world has someone who understands. Great speech!! Lot of respect.

BEAUTIFUL!!!! I wish there were thousands more like you! Never stop your great work!

I just fell inlove with Alain. I could listen to him for many hours

This is one of the most moving speeches l have heard recently. Thank you for being so honest.

Wichtige Gedanken präzise aber sehr unterhaltsam vorgetragen - ein Genuss! Tatsächlich werden wir "gerettet werden" durch die Herausbildung von im Deutschen sagt man "Herzensbildung". Dazu bedarf es verschiedener günstig getroffener Faktoren, zum Beispiel liebenden, starke Eltern, die uns unter anderem Empathie, Geduld und Disziplin weitergeben, aber auch zugewandten, verständigen Lehrern, echt unterstützende Freunde, Freude an Schönheit ob in der Natur oder der Kultur aber auch eine Prise Scheitern, Leiden und Empathie. Hoffnungsfrohe Grüße aus dem Land der Dichter und Denker an die hier versammelte Runde und speziell an den zu allem Überfluss auch noch so sympathischen Redner Bubu Q.

me too I love him, can't stop watching his videos in youtube

Wish you teach these lessons to high school students ,that's where they will have a good result!

Thank you for legitimizing and validating many of my beliefs...which are contrary to society's norms.

I like his thinking, he actually has thought, not just follows.

Like Alain, I adore my nine year old Blackberry and use it for writing as well because the keyboard is fantastic. You are a kindred spirit on many levels - thank you for sharing your humour and wisdom.

ever so genius. my favourite modern philosopher

Alain has a hard crowd... I hope they have subtitles... but am sure the people there don't give much away with laughter/smiles... they certainly will benefit understanding the speech

Timeless Love message

Lol about the grandmothers. Mine were two of the most generous people I ever knew. One in particular was one of the best people I ever knew, by far!

I'm Muslim, and I practice my faith, I live calm and peaceful life.

The way the school of life have reshaped my thoughts 💬💭 about life, thank you so much for teaching me.

Alain, I’ve followed your work for years. This not only informed me on some level, but actually touched me deeply. I love that your work has lead you to this focus

I liked his subversive tactics. Eg twitter to think and broadcast instead of the usual quarrelling or using the phone to write his book not to field endless incoming stuff and choosing the blackberry as it suited that purpose better. So I learned we need to apply our minds to our lives and everyday problems if we want to grow. Thanks!

A rare talent. Brilliant!

I appreciate him I read his book Art.of Travel when it first came out in US bookstores.

Reminders of goodness... I love that :)

Tough audience. A good reminder that we need much more of Alain de Botton in all languages. A bit too fast for simultaneous translation and reactions from the audience

Great philosophy God Bless You for sharing your prodigious Gift (your mind)

Love this guy

12:00 - 17:00 Combine repetition < must be scheduled > of religions with exciting - entertaining speaking / Create better reminders for our parts... 15:25 We need our inner life to have an agenda / a calendar with the most important ideas to repeat for our learning

Michael Sandels and I are exceptions... Well both are my favorites🌸🌸🌸

Im here because im binging all his videos in YT

I love a lot of what Alain teaches, especially about how Romanticism has been the cause of the implosion of most modern relationships. But it makes me so terribly sad that somebody with such a wonderful brain and such a big heart could see clearly enough to know that we lost community, wisdom, proper teaching, and more when people left church and faith… And then not even see that that is exactly the only cause and reason of all the increased depression and suicide rates and hopelessness! How can you see the cause of the problem, and then not even recognize that the solution to the problem is to go back to what stopped the problem in the first place!?

Enjoyable presentation. I think books help us to know ourselves better. I also think they unify us as they show our points of view are commonly shared by others.

Such great speech

great speaker like you!

The guy is amazing

His thoughts are treasure...!!!

Very nice!!! Wow! An amazing practical philosopher! At last!

Im not gay, but I love you Alain de Botton!

This was great

Beautifil ideas!

thank you

Thank you

fascinating to see how bits and pieces from several of Alain´s books are woven together into a larger narrative, outlining a structure for designing systems that will remind/help/enable us to practice being better people, to ourselves, others and, although not mentioned, other species and our environment. now, make time to write down what it is about de Botton that makes me/you feel envious :)

Love him :)

Sería posible que nos suministren los subtítulos en español gracias

Yes we do have a richer sense of who deserves high status problem 32:06

So good that I can’t feel my legs anymore

Such a brilliant man!!

genius!

Excellent!

It has always been a great pleasure to have something new from you; moment becomes more enjoyable when my own views find similarity with yours. Too good as always....

He is the complement to Sal Khan in spreading education.

Brilliant 💛

I love it when Alain writhes.

Buddha rules: compassionate thinking 🌹

great

Am not P am V I love the guy he is brilliant , how I would love to meet him and talk to him

15:47 THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS IN THE WORLD WILL BE FORGOTTEN, UNLESS THEY ARE IN OUR 📆

must see.

Love at home and love at work...... is getting complicated Wife : let's go to bed Men : No thanks i'm good

he is such a beautiful, exceptional human being

What you all need is David Icke

Wow

12:40 - 20:11 how religions educate people

🎉🎉

Wonder what the people sitting there were thinking. :D Can't imagine they heard this message before :P

haha me 2! they look a bit shocked :)

There is a cruel irony to the fact that you can't educate people to be wise, while de Botton wants to 'school' people in wisedom. 'Doing' is to learning by rote what 'being' is to becoming wise. Unfortunately, it is the sore lack of education delivered in most places of learning - (educe - to draw out one's latent qualities) that leads to this in a materialistic corporatocracy, in which we live, and in which most people are surrogates for machines.

"Leave the premises you are crazy!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I can't find school of Life branch in India

♥!!

In East Asia education in virtues is as old as Confucius.

Never a waste of time to listen to Alain. With reservation to anti religion. There is still a religion that is very powerful, and being manipulated by foreign intelligence agencies. We the true owners know the tricks and tweaks.

I thought that parents and family are there to show you what's important in life and relationships and in general share with you the wisdom. Of course there are families which will not be especially good at this; well, just as some universities and schools will provide bad quality education. But still, why look for a business model, a new way to earn money on something which, from my point of view, is the very fabric of being in a family (being a child, a parent, etc...)

The museum won't give your life meaning, but the art in the museum can. He is confusing the institution with the content of the institution.

Hello students of La Salle

Ah there was a response just got to the part lol

It’s funny how similar he seems to Derren Brown.

Interesting but a very dull and besserwisser outlook on life

The Jewish blessing of the trees is called Birkat HaIlanot - not Birkat Hilachot.

10 Samsung fans downvoted this

I don't see how a blackberry keyboard is any easier to use than a touch screen keyboard.

36:03 Just use a cheaper airline lol

11:40 ...

Ai will replace all of this quickly now.

my vision for education is a smorgasbord of opportunity beginning with music, play, dance, garden, cook, learn about life from within being carried in its mothers arms for the first 9 months at having been delivered at half time, compared to other large mammals . from the moment of conception we are fast forwarded through all the eons and ages of time to arrive on the face of earth and ever so accurate sum up of all the cosmic as in galactic energyes grounding their selfs in any and every , to where, tween linage and locale, we grow into a body of memoryes , much as earth has done, Crystals grow, to this day, as time CoMPress. . we are not born to be taught , we are each born as a cosmic update, arriving into the same energy society is at the time. todays youth leapfrogged over us with the computer. you young people are light years ahead of where all those who got stuck in repeat . . with the universe screaming to us for youth's creativity flower in our world . flower power to the people begins by our living in honour and respect of our youth, they are brilliant, they are bright, they see life through unfettered eyes. we ought be pumping them for our insights while the rest of us figure out how to IMPlimend our DeepArtMend Children are not ours, rather we belong to them, to send them off into this world witha healthy wholesome sense of self . like the cells of our being. . sum up of any is greater than its parts . . if every cell of our body knows how to play its part and function with the body of our beingness. Can we not trust the sum of its parts to like open their eyes and while they think for their selves it is trying to think through another's thinking that we run into so much trouble and 10 times so with the world wide web and instant translations dissolving the rivers of babble on adapted to the galactic energyes grounding and radiating from neat our feet to with it, have the energyes shape our thinking and colour our world with all manner of cultures and customs , come, let us be a celebrations of our customs and cultures, let us turn the earth into a blooming show of what can happen when youth puts its mind to some youth listens to grown ups , in fact told hush time we hush and listen to just how brilliant and bright ourchids are never sully youth with the shadows of your past

Giving people too much credit... Most people have nothing to offer in the area of creativity. They need to be instructed or they would not do much at all.

Ilie Moromete era mult mai bun !!!...din câte înțeleg io ,tipu' ăsta vrea să reinventeze roata și apa caldă!🙄🤔😁

He is reading his audience to see is he reaching them? some audiences are harder to read.

Yo what was that song in the beginning that shit slapped

Why he avoided China to set up branch

I have a problem with the bypassing of God. I know I was raised with the values of Faith in God and the virtues of holiness. Not that anyone can attain the Standard of Christ. But that He is the standard of virtue. These values have ceased to be passed down at large by parents to their children. When I observe this in practice, I see a quality of life that I wish I had. You are correctly addressing a great need that is greatly lacking in humanity. But, why replace God? To me it is useless, but I will be observing with great interest!

I'm glad in 2013 Alain de Botton, scion of one of the wealthiest families in Switzerland is able to garner so much enthusiasm. It is now nov 2019 and his charming personality manages to sell the same ideas without any kind of natural evolution over and over. I like him very much and think he is profoundly sincere; he draws on Western philosophers from Schopenhauer to Nietzche to … here we meet old friends the alternative Religion, psychoanalysis Freud, Winnicott,... here is where I stop. I think of Freud as someone in flux constantly testing ideas; in that context his mistakes are completely understandable. Also the highly strung wealthy women of Vienna provided a cultural context rooted in time and place. I have no problem with de Botton's denunciation of the romantic movement as it affects people today. But I am profoundly bored. I don't care if my mother's experience as a jew in Berlin during the Nazi era, hidden in plain sight by changing identity papers, which made her grandfather, useful to Speer, a collaborator, any easier but I have beautiful images of Eva as a frightened cat clinging to the top branches of a tree and afraid to come down. It is good to understand the people we love profoundly. And here is where I stop and withdraw from a project that does not interest me.

The U.N. When was the last leader of that organization a philosopher? Fucked if I know - Charles Chaplin notwithstanding. Alain for secretary of the UN if we want progress and peace. Don't fuck around.

Interesting talk and post talk q and a. It’s a shame it must be set inside the capitalist framework, that’s taken for granted. The destructively competitive and exploitative ethos of capitalism is what is at the root of society’s problems, including personal. For all Alain’s eloquence he doesnt address this fundamental problem

7:30 bad take

I am here because I have a smart phones I think he needs to stop recording and keep walking and talk to people and see how far he goes

0:06 He's a writher, hehe