Alain de Botton Interview (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
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- Alain de Botton, FRSL is a Swiss-born British Philosopher and author. His books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. is many things, but I think of him as a rare breed of practical philosopher.
In 1997, he turned away from writing novels and instead wrote an extended essay titled How Proust Can Change Your Life, which became an unlikely blockbuster.
His subsequent books have been described as a ‘philosophy of everyday life’ and subjects include love, travel, architecture, religion and work.
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How Philosophy Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton
Show Notes: fourhourworkweek.com/2015/11/1...
Answering the question, “What do you do?” [7:43]
Beginnings and emotional intelligence [11:23]
The importance of “proving” oneself [17:08]
On mixing nonfiction and fiction writing [21:23]
Most influential writers and books [22:58]
How Proust Can Change Your Life [24:38]
What changed Alain de Botton’s life? [30:23]
Low expectations and achieving great things [35:38]
Complex philosophy vs useful philosophy [39:53]
Pre-Cambridge years [59:38]
Best practices to help status anxiety [1:03:08]
On developing the skill of listening [1:16:23]
Embodiment of success [1:25:13]
Most gifted books [1:29:28]
A contrarian belief [1:30:38]
Utilitarian philosophers, AI, and the future of philosophy [1:36:08]
Favorite documentaries and movies [1:40:08]
Favorite purchase of $100 or less [1:41:58]
Valuable daily rituals and routines [1:44:18]
Alain's billboard [1:47:18]
Advice to your 30-year-old self [1:48:08]
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About Tim Ferriss:
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 200 million downloads and been selected for “Best of iTunes” three years running.
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Alain is a true treasure....his "School of Life" is very educational and entertaining.....I wish more people would know about him....
If you are in a rush, Alain de Botton starts at 11:35
thanks, you're godsend
Thank you Keshaw! I almost never care for long introductions, specially when someone like Alain de Botton is waiting to give us one of his superb presentations.
11 mins of adverts it's extremely disrespectful for the audience.
however, free content is extremely respectful to the audience. Thanks, Timmy.
Omg thanks 👍🏾
Alain is a wonderfully clear communicator.
Super idealistic. In an semi practical way. And I'm ok with that
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Samanta Srijani whaaa?!!🤪
@@bottosrobLOL I was listening to this podcast while trying to fall asleep so I think my phone typed this comment while I was drifting off
Samanta Srijani Hahahaha!! That’s awesome. Keep doing your thing Samanta! Your making friends even in your sleep.
Tim! You are a hero for interviewing this guy. Alain is such a (subtly) powerful teacher. I can't recommend people check out his work emphatically enough.
sorry to be so off topic but does any of you know of a way to log back into an Instagram account?
I was stupid lost the password. I would love any assistance you can offer me!
@Isaiah Ephraim instablaster :)
@Pedro Emmett Thanks for your reply. I found the site through google and I'm in the hacking process atm.
I see it takes a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
@Pedro Emmett it worked and I now got access to my account again. Im so happy!
Thanks so much, you saved my ass !
@Isaiah Ephraim You are welcome :D
What a great interview! I could listen to Alain de Botton all day. Tim Ferris's questions are so interesting that it leads to a lovely in-depth convo.
Alain de Botton is such a great empathic teacher and the perfect representative of the School of life. Thank you thank you thank you
Alain is such a gift to British cullture. Here in America, our thought leaders are shunned to the fringes of media.
I love Alain💕🌺❤️ I could listen to him for hours.
More than anything else, god, religion, principles, anything at all - I confidently believe Alain truly grasps what life is about! The truest kind of hero this world most certainly needs.
To put it simply, this was incredibly valuable. Thank you so much 💘
Have been following you both for years, so glad you got together. Alain, your humor is profound!
Such a great interview!!!! THANK you so much to both of you! Not one sec. of this interview is wasted time...THANKS from the bottom of my heart!! ✨✨🌈🌈
Beautiful conversation!
I've read most of your books and for me you come up as one of life's treasures - thank you
Great interview, especially you got Alain talk about his parents which is rare. I want to know more about his wife now...:)
Loved this. Love your podcast. (For a long time now). So glad you interviewed Alain De Botton, he’s one of my favourite people, incredibly wise, kind and amazingly precise and simple in his use of the English language to express his wonderful ideas! I thought the interview offered some valuable insights to him and his ideas in a different way than his books.
Thank you Tim, I have followed you and Alain for quite some time now. Meeting of my favorite minds!
Great show densely packed with high-concentrated bits of wisdom. Superb audio quality, too. Thank you Tim.
Best interview EVER!!
Two of my favorites persons Tim and Alan
This is a wonderful interview. I am so happy to have listened to it!
Hello there. If you wish, listen to Alain de Botton on an " On Bein With Krista Tippett" podcast, where he talks about his latest book " The Course of Love". That's the most meaningful and profound conversation I have ever heard about love.
Strange to've heard de Botton so often in multiple formats, yet never being interviewed. Thanks.
This conversation is great!!!
Alain is brilliant!!!!
The part about our ideas of success pertaining to the message " you have to uncover this secret creative gem inside you and then the world will beat a path to you door and you'll have creative freedom and money" (paraphrasing) is brilliant.
Wonderful rapid fire questions, Tim.
I found this video in search of how to pronounce Alain De Botton. Glad I was pronouncing it right this whole time!
Lol same. In case you forget, it's at 6:40
0 - 3:55 Bla bla bla....
3:55 - 6:05 facts about Alain de Button, and some of his work
6:35 - 7:40 if you want to hear how to say 'Alain de Botton'.
11:45 -1:53:35 the actual interview
1:53:50 - 1:54:30 How to find Alain's web site, social media stuff, etc.
1:54:54 - 1:55:25 Alain's recommendation to get into Proust.
1:55:26 - 2:00:31 extraneous stuff
Thank you !
OMG! I use a Pilot G-Tech C4 pen like Alain de Botton too! Favourite pen since 1995. :)
Dear Tim, Platforms like "99 designs" are unethical and very bad for work environment. It is a bottomless race down for designers, where underprivileged designers with not many other choices are forced to compete against each other to bid for every single piece of work, and then the customer might decide to pay or might as well not pay for the work done and for the many hours spent by up to one million two hundred thousand designers! Great deal for customers yes! but I don't see how is this NOT an abuse of these designers.
You have probably saved some money supporting this platform, you might have also made some money too, Congratulations! You should feel proud.
Try going to a massage center and suggesting that you want to try 30 different masseurs for 30 hours and you are willing to pay only for 1 hour and ONLY if you like it enough. See what they will answer you. I don't see why it is ok to get design services and not pay for it, but it's wrong to get a massage for example and not pay for it. Designers have bills too and they don't get any discounts just for being designers. Such platforms not only abuses the designers working with them, they also make the conditions of the whole design industry worse. If I could get it for free online why can't I get it for free offline... if I like it I pay for it. Maybe because someone needs to work for a week on it and they need to eat sometimes as well.
@@jadboureslan8099 I totally empathize with your concerns here as I am a concept artist in the animation industry, which is not strictly designing but shares a lot with that discipline.
The issue is, there are too many designers. People need to stop joining that industry. If the demand is 1 to 99 (i.e people only need 1 logo for every 99 designers that are out there) then no wonder such an ethic would come about. This is still a free market, and trends reflect the state of an industry. I'm familiar with these issues because I had the same realization with my occupation, there are too many of us for a very small number (relatively) of companies who actually need us.
If you are being underpaid, quit, you are not a slave.
Everyone at the BBC, or involved in any kind of broadcasting, should concentrate hard at what Alain has to say at around 1.30.00. But the whole interview is great.
Alain gave a shout out to Jamie Oliver! Love it
Wish you had a radio station or tv channel talking with people who need to talk about life in general!
49:20 great observation.
I have had pomegranates when I was little, but the hassle to get the flesh didn't make it on my favorite fruits list until I learned the exact trick that Alain mentioned here 25+ years after I first tried it. Life changing tricks...LOL
Hey Tim, there is a small audio issue at the beginning of this video, Alain says "to kind of" and the intro cuts him off. The podcast version was fine, as far as i remember.
Future me: What you're probably looking for is at 6:40
Would be curious to hear about where their world-views diverge.
Just came by for the 3rd listen.
7:30 I just say "Princess" - Saves a lot of trouble (unless one becomes regular)
Tim, I wish you would have listened more closely to Alain's responses and focused more on asking critical questions than on showcasing your own knowledge and power. I found some of Tims intros confusing, divergent and self-absorbed. Please make this show more about your listeners than your life.
I agree pretty much with this remark. Questions should be brief and concise.
Agree. Irritating showcasing by Tim.
Don't give up on yourself Bouldering. For what it is worth I give you full permission to be yourself and fulfil your potential. All the best on your journey my friend.
You forget about us in Canada ! How come ?!
I wish Ferris asked De Botton about his kettlebell routine...
haha
Has better things to do, as do I.
Marko Tomašević 💪🏼😆
A good one !
secularized version of meeting with a deity, hahaha; 36:48 is a great question
uh•laayn 😂😂😂😂 thats what I've been saying!
It now starts at 3:55
Now starts at 6:08
Ilaa maaripoyaaru endo?
Ha, glad I live where pomegranates are affordable :)
Them damned shipping costs!
Aah-lah ... de-Bo-Tone
How Foust Can Change Your Life.
Totally don't know what Mani state is
Nanny State
Tim did you even read his books before interviewing?
Cut down on your talking when asking questions Mr Ferriss. You don't clarify, you just waste time. Good guest!
***** Sign of a good man
This is a conversation, not an interview.
I'd like it to be an interview
Mr Ferris's thoughts and opinions take up too much time. It sounds like showcasing a lot of the time.
First 10 minutes are a waist of time, De Botton is good
I sense A lot of Allan Watts in this fellow
Bien repeat
Would have been a more interesting podcast if you'd let him pick apart the reality of your 4 hour work week and 4 hour body concepts. Guess it's just business, as usual.
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In few words. Life sucks, super sucks and will continue to suck up to the grave. Make the best of it. If you are weak life will eat you up. Read Nietzsche amigo. You will find the answer. Excellent Alain. It is sad part is that over 90 % of the ignorant Americans have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
Such an entitled pessimist!
Tim
Please be less selfabsorbed in your interviews. We, the listeners, are more interested in the people you interview than in you.
Am sorry.
Do not mean to be rude.
30:20 my boy there alain put you back in your american place
Ferriss is sold as shit :(