> The School of Life infuriates me for many reasons "Alain de Botton [owner of The School of Life], for example, has built an international self-help empire, o

> The School of Life infuriates me for many reasons "Alain de Botton [owner of The School of Life], for example, has built an international self-help empire, offering lessons in self-love to CEOs and yummy-mummies (and daddies). But what actually drives him, underneath the bonnet? What dirty fuel keeps him motoring? It's the fact he had a violent tyrannical father [1] who never accepted little Alain or made him feel good enough. All his books, he has said, were an attempt to connect with Pater Horribilis. The School of Life should offer a workshop in Radical Self-Loathing." [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/alain-de-botton-my-father-was-physically-quite-violent-he-would-destroy-the-house-7580958.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/alain-de-... Source: https://www.philosophyforlife.org/blog/the-secret-of-success-self-loathing https://www.philosophyforlife.org/blog/the-secret-of-success...