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

The Tim Ferriss Show

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How to Get Yourself Right - I'm a Laboratory of One.

Sadber: I start with myself as the first case study. If i'm getting myself right, by definition, i'll be getting lots of other people right too. He says his career has been trying to find answers that would work for him and others. In undergraduate studies he studied what they called 'freedom' which is a word like freedom in all different ways. So we would study how things had changed over time through big concepts such as self-discovery or individual realization. Sadber's new book will be published next year on £16.99 from Simon & Schuster.

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