Tag: Alain de Botton
3 posts tagged "Alain de Botton".
Swiss-British essayist and popular philosopher (born 1969) who repackages the Western canon as practical guidance for everyday life. His books — How Proust Can Change Your Life, Status Anxiety, The Architecture of Happiness, and The Consolations of Philosophy — mine thinkers from Seneca to Epictetus for usable wisdom. He is best known on this blog for Status Anxiety, a dissection of how our craving for esteem drives status signalling and quiet misery, and for founding The School of Life. His project is essentially a popular bid for happiness and meaning-making against the consolations of consumerism.
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An Interview with Alain de Botton
The British philosopher speaks out on the curse of fame, the cruel expectations of self-help, and why we're all "hellish propositions".
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Getting to 'Good Enough'
Time for some Reverse Life Coaching: a shared ambition to become less ambitious. Here's the plan for reaching 'good enough' (and staying there).
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up is Utterly Deranged, and I Love It
Marie Kondo—queen of decluttering, bestselling author, empire-builder—hears voices in her head.
