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  Modern Wisdom

  16 Lessons from The School Of Life - Alain de Botton - #1015 · Nov 2025

  How To Fix Your Negative Patterns - Alain de Botton - #898 · Feb 2025

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  Design Matters with Debbie Millman

  Design Matters from the Archive: Alain de Botton · Jun 2017

  Alain de Botton · Jun 2016

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  Making Sense with Sam Harris

  #483 — The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into · Jul 2026

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  How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

  ON HEARTBREAK... With Alain de Botton and Jay Shetty · Sep 2025

  SPECIAL EPISODE! How To Fail: Alain De Botton on embracing vulnerability in the age of Coronavirus · Mar 2020

  S6, Ep2 How to Fail: Alain De Botton · Oct 2019

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  The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

  20VC Alain De Botton on Why Companies Are Not Families | Why Status is Making You Miserable | Why Parents Want Their Kids to Fail | Why We Are Richer Yet More Anxious Than Ever & Why You Should Not Always "Be Yourself" · Nov 2024

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  The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

  Most Replayed Moment: Alain de Botton - Individualism Is Making Us Miserable! · Aug 2025

  Moment 171: STOP DOING THIS! It's Ruining Your Sex Life · Jul 2024

  The Love Expert: We've Built A Loveless Society & It's Making Us Depressed! (here's the fix!) Alain De Botton · Dec 2023

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  The Tim Ferriss Show

  #459: Books I've Loved — Alain de Botton · Sep 2020

  #118: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton · Nov 2015

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  EconTalk

  Alain de Botton on the Pleasures and Sorrows of Work · Sep 2010

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  Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

  BITESIZE | The Childhood Patterns That Secretly Shape Your Adult Life | Alain de Botton #636 · Mar 2026

  How to Feel More Understood, Valued and Secure in Your Relationships with Alain de Botton #574 · Sep 2025

  BITESIZE | The Truth About Modern Anxiety & A Surprising Way To Find Joy and Meaning | Alain de Botton #558 · May 2025

  The Truth About Modern Anxiety, A Surprising Way To Find Joy and Meaning & How To Transform Your Relationships with Alain de Botton #495 · Nov 2024

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  On Being with Krista Tippett

  Alain de Botton — The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships · Feb 2021

  [Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett · Feb 2021

  Alain de Botton — A School of Life for Atheists · Sep 2016

  [Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett (2012) · Sep 2016

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  Bookworm

  Alain de Botton · Oct 1997

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  Philosophy Bites

  Alain de Botton on Atheism 2.0 · Jan 2012

  Alain de Botton on Philosophy Within and Outside the Academy · Nov 2007

  Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture · Jun 2007

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  Intelligence Squared

  The World Needs Religion Even if it Doesn't Need God · Mar 2023

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  Happy Place

  Alain de Botton: Introspection, defence mechanisms, and ghosts · Dec 2023

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  The High Performance Podcast

  Stop Chasing Perfection: A Therapeutic Take on Success with Alain de Botton, Philosopher · Oct 2025

  How Asking One Hard Question Builds Deeper Trust, with Alain de Botton · Jun 2025

  Alain de Botton on the joy of being average (E218) · Oct 2023

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  Great Company with Jamie Laing

  Alain De Botton: How To Make Real Connections | GREAT MOMENTS · Apr 2026

  Why We Choose Unhealthy Partners | ALAIN DE BOTTON THROWBACK · Dec 2025

  ALAIN DE BOTTON: WHY MAKING FRIENDS AS AN ADULT FEELS IMPOSSIBLE (BUT ISN'T) · Sep 2025

  ALAIN DE BOTTON: WE LOOK FOR FAMILIARITY NOT HAPPINESS IN RELATIONSHIPS · Sep 2024

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  Within Reason

  #136 Why Did The World Get So Ugly? - Alain de Botton · Dec 2025

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  The Psychology Podcast

  Alain de Botton || Love, Sex, Religion and Happiness · Mar 2017

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