Alain’s voice was already so soothing in the regular videos, this is like heaven!

@krutibhavsar9534

9 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more...

Alain de Botton and his voice are the cornerstone of the school of life

Whoah whoah whoah. When did my favourite practical philosophy channel turn into an ASMR channel?? Well, I'm not complaining. I need to sleep soon anyway.

@theschooloflifetv

Жыл бұрын

We're always looking to try new things! And a film that can finally send us to sleep is a useful one indeed.

@ryanjeanes5253

Жыл бұрын

@@theschooloflifetv Thank you, Alain.

@anonymity101

Жыл бұрын

@@theschooloflifetv sir you are love

@pinabaker8339

Жыл бұрын

Love love love this! Am reading ISOLT at the moment. Any chance you can eat the whole the lot?

@zeev

Жыл бұрын

when it needs more hits. this is the problem with the internet. and social media. success and winner is incentivized to be greedy. not saying SoL is greedy, but this is the incentive framework.

It's strikingly beautiful how Proust so lucidly and accurately describes the most subtle and overlooked thoughts and emotions.

@BarbaraT.

Жыл бұрын

Can we all just agree on the fact that Proust understood everything, wrote of it beautifully and nothing else makes sense? ☺

@jbri1

Жыл бұрын

@@BarbaraT. of course we can't. We can't all agree on anything.

@Pixel1962

Жыл бұрын

It’s a revelation to me; I have never read/heard Proust before, and this sounds like a fantastic translation.

Thank you thank you thank you. Such a good idea to have Alain De Botton and his soothing voice on a proust story!

@Carmen-mp3je

Жыл бұрын

He has a beautiful voice ❤ is one of the things I love the most of his channel, his calmed voice to explain complex emotions and make me feel it’s ok to feel and be unwell

Alain has the best ASMR voice ever.

Two weeks ago I finished Swann’s Way. Months of reading in the morning as I adopted it as my morning spiritual book. When good things happen to me these days, they are accepted poignantly like the anticipation of the mother’s kiss, he knows she’ll be returning downstairs soon. Thank you Alain. Beautiful. Wonderful to be in this company.

How DARE you call Proust boring. When reading In Search of Lost Time I literally can't get my eyes off the text. His descriptions of social interactions, of dinners, balls, parties are intoxicatingly exciting. Reading Proust is a raging ride! :D

My favourite book. Ever. It's not going to send me to sleep but THANK YOU anyway. Nothing could make me happier than listening to Alain reading Proust.

I wish Alain would narrate all of Proust.

@theschooloflifetv

Жыл бұрын

Let's see how this one goes down - then we'll see!

@kevinwoodfield240

Жыл бұрын

I’d pay for this in a heartbeat

@bajolunapod

Жыл бұрын

​@@theschooloflifetv yes please. Audiobook by you is the only possible shot I'm ever 'reading' this masterful but looooooong book. :)

Can we please have much more of this.

This is awesome. Reminds me of the best times of my life. Fishing early morning, from my little rowboat. Whilst everything is still and quiet, everyone in the cabin is sleeping deep in dreams. Something so cathartic about watching and listening to the world slowly wake in the morn.

Iv had insomnia for a week, your videos are timed perfectly for me

I was starting to fall asleep until the ad popped up and woke me up. 😢

@theschooloflifetv

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, we have now turned off mid roll ads on this film.

Oh my goodness. It’s a god send !! 🥰🥰I listen to your “how Proust changes our life “ all the time… how to put a book down… how friends really don’t matter in the end… i find so much consolation in your voice L. Thank you. My students also love you. ❤️❤️🌈

I'll just grab some Chamomile and settle into a warm daze before bed. Your voice is incredibly reassuring and soothingly clear.

I put on Alain's videos in a playlist to sleep because his voice is so soothing and cozy like sitting near a fire in the winter and it's drizzling ...and add Proust to that and I'm off ❤️ i wish he'd do the book of disquiet by Fernando pessoa

@smyerskelley

Жыл бұрын

oh my gosh, what an incredible idea!

What a treat! Thank you School of life for this beautiful treasure!! You make me happy and full of peace ❤

I love how the channel is embracing ASMR 😴

That was great. I certainly need more of such books in your voice. Thanks plenty 😊

I LOVE PROUST! When I was 21, I could translate him fluidly. 29 years later… not so much. Beautifully read! ❤

@ariskrisn

Жыл бұрын

Woww that's great! As you did at 21, I'm still on progress to translating Du côte de chez Swann from French into Indonesian. Just started a month ago

I need this on spotify so I can hear Alain's soothing voice luring me into sleep

In the stillness of the night When the world is fast asleep I lie awake, my mind aflight With thoughts that dance and leap Insomnia, my old friend You plague me once again And yet, in your embrace I find a certain grace For in the silence of the night I am free to roam and roam To explore the depths of my mind And find a world all my own So while others dream and rest I wander in this waking dream And though it may be a curse It is also a blessing, it seems For in the hours of the night I find a kind of clarity A space to think and write And create, so willingly So thank you, insomnia For giving me this gift Of time to be alone And to explore, to sift Through all the thoughts and feelings That linger in my soul And to weave them into words That make me whole.

@deborahhercodbooth8011

Жыл бұрын

Is this poem your own? It’s so true.

@tinkageorgewilliam871

Жыл бұрын

@@deborahhercodbooth8011 Yeah. I've been trying out poetry on various topics. It's unpublished though

@samijefetai6435

Жыл бұрын

👌👍

@realitywinner7582

5 ай бұрын

excellent - God Bless !

We need the entire book in Alain's voice!

This video is divine and has been added to my sleep/ASMR playlist 🪶

Yeah! It's actually a great idea, @TheSchoolofLife! Been thinking about reading this book since I heard it from one of your videos! I know it's soooo long, but it must be great. I can feel how in love you are with Proust's. I'm not sure I'd be able to read it, but so glad you read an excerpt for us, we have a glimpse of that great book! Am actually searching for some boredom and Insomnia. My busy-ness doesn't allow me to get either of those.

I was waiting for something like this to happen… this is superb.

I love this so much. Thank you for doing this.

Please continue reading Proust!

Did they found out that I use their philosophy playlist to help me sleep???! 👁️👄👁️

Alain is a genius. Thank you for all that you do!

It is healing me. His voice is so soothing.

thank you. please we need the wool book if you can .you're voice the way you narrate I can't even say. thank you

Thank you Alain, for the Proust introduction and committed generosity of thoughtful share.

Thank you for this ! Love love it ❤

wow so good to hear you again Alan!

Ohhhh boy that soothing voice is what I needed.

What a fantastic voice and the reading text, sheer pleasure. ❤

Thank you so much, Alain. This is so beautiful and soothing! I miss your voice.

this is the most beautiful thing…thank you so much

Thank you ❤️

Thanks so much. It really works and is so interesting and revealing of Proust. I did think it wouldn't send me to sleep, but it did, magically

Please for the love of god make more of these. I’d even pay

Sensational video. 😊

Does anyone know where I can find more footage like this? Alain's reading is beautiful, but even just watching that rain over the water in silence has made me more peaceful than I can describe.

Beautiful idea 🙂

Soothing ❤️

Hope like Alain’s voice returning back on videos, articles of the school of life also to become like past a free huge handbook of wisdom.

Please do more videos like this.

I’m so into it!!! ❤ Alain!

I can not count the amount of times ive heard this to sleep

Omg this is brilliant❤

I may just bookmark this one. Thoroughly sterling show.

Where tf was this last night , now it's 8 am and I've had 20 minutes of sleep lol

@theschooloflifetv

Жыл бұрын

Good news, it will still be here tonight!

@LimitlessHoops

Жыл бұрын

The best 20 of your life is coming up!

I love Alan's voice.

Coulda used this before I had to go to class on three hours of sleep 😭😭

Amazing!

My favorite joke about the author for decades : « For a longtime I went to bed early »… and thanks to Proust I felt asleep very quickly ! But then, I am French, so everybody here knows the first sentence of « A La recherche du temps perdu »

I can only wish Alain De Botton continued his enchanting reading. With my many thanks for this piece.

I couldn't believe that I would love this channel even more ❤️❤️🥺🥹, More videos please, maybe some more like this and some other that can be more thought provoking but not much of an advice at the same time. I'm glad Alain came back to the channel and waiting for more videos ❤️❤️.

If Alain could set aside 1-2hr cumulative per week to record In Search for Lost Time, I would pay $79 for the audiobook in the year 2030 when it’s finally finished haha

@theschooloflifetv

Жыл бұрын

That's a deal!

watching this at 4am, I feel so sleepy now

Wooooooow a dream come true !

And I thought I'd never be able to read Proust. I still think I'm right. But this ain't bad. Thank you!

My problem with insomnia is that my mind is the most creative when the light is off and ideas just keep popping up in my head whenever I try to sleep ._.

And it's read by Alain de Botton. Perfect❤️

This is such an old method that still works today. Most are late receiving the info

ASMR is about something that produces tingly sensation on head and back skin. ASMR is not about calming or sexy gentle stuff.

Great novel.

Pack your troubles up for tomorrow, don't drink coffee after lunch and don't watch the news. Smile at 5 people daily.

@realitywinner7582

5 ай бұрын

Now you said it !! God Bless !

Love this! Next time whispered? 😊🌞

Mr. Botton talking Proust?! I don’t care if he was shouting it. Straight to favorites!

I didn't think this would actually help me. I still don't know to be honest, but can we have more of this? I'm tired of my insomnia 😔

These are the best bits of Proust though. De Botton never talks about the hundreds of pages of inane party gossip in the middle that I can't manage to get through. If only it were all like this.

@Pixel1962

Жыл бұрын

Aha! Thanks for that, I didn’t know it.

It is beautiful.

I always thought his voice was a good fit for ASMR content, I am just surprised it took them so long to have a video of this haha!

@BarbaraT.

Жыл бұрын

His voice is stupendous! In the very early days of The School of Life every single video was voiced by Alain de Botton. When, after a while, they began to use other voices I was so disappointed. I obviously understand the practicality of having other people lending their voices, and my disappointment is no reflection on the quality of their contributions at all, but it just isn't the same.

@mooxart64

Жыл бұрын

​@@BarbaraT. Oh yes I agree, I remember the only other voice I absolutely loved deeply was the woman who talked on their " On Feeling Melancholy " video. That one helped me a lot. Topic was very soothing, as much as her voice was.

@BarbaraT.

Жыл бұрын

@@mooxart64 I'll have to rewatch that video. I remember it, but don't recall the voice. I know what you mean though; much of The School of Life's work has inspired, consoled and soothed me. I hope you're having a serene December.

The Voice ,Divinity in Motion.😴

This is nice

I was in many stories during sleep, but what's common about it they all somehow got to wake me up in some cruel way. As example I was a noble of middle Ages and quickly from simple routine tricked to sacrifice own bloodline for evil entity in most cruel way with own hands and on next day go for suspecting ones to make intrigue go on.

we need ALL 7 books

Very cool, but what is this translation? So much more beautiful here: "Sometimes, too, as Eve was created from a rib of Adam, a woman would be born during my sleep from some misplacing of my thigh. Conceived from the pleasure I was on the point of enjoying, she it was, I imagined, who offered me that pleasure. My body, conscious that its own warmth was permeating hers, would strive to become one with her, and I would awake. The rest of humanity seemed very remote in comparison with this woman whose company I had left but a moment ago; my cheek was still warm from her kiss, my body ached beneath the weight of hers. If, as would sometimes happen, she had the features of some woman whom I had known in waking hours, I would abandon myself altogether to this end: to find her again, like people who set out on a journey to see with their eyes some city of their desire, and imagine that one can taste in reality what has charmed one’s fancy. And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream. When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly bodies."

I'm debating whether to actually read Proust or not. It seems like a huge commitment, one that makes War and Peace look like a casual evening's yarn.

@mb4472

Жыл бұрын

If you are a reader generally, then the idea of reading 7 books isn't that outlandish? There's no rush anyway, I took a year over it, using "the corklined room" blog as a guide and it's been a life enhancing gift to self.

Proust-a really interesting writer.

Ah Finally I can sleep again

its like a little piece of mercy in the internet

There's a short glitch near the end where a word or two repeats in the @25:00 minute.

Anyone who managed to get to volume 6 must be far more patient than I could ever be.

this should work.. I always sleep when trying to read this book hahahha

I actually fell asleep

For those who suffer from insomnia, besides Proust, try any law book, the thicker the better. Cheap insomnia pill, lasts forever and has no side effects. Good sleep 💤💤💤

2 months of insomnia… hoping to change this in the last week of 2022

Is there a way to hear the whole thing? I looked up the School of Life and cannot find the Audiobook. I would like to hear the entire series from you.

"Cure insomnia" is intentionally deceptive, yo. I thought this channel was better than that.

Can you read the whole book please?

Is that Lake Louise in Canada?

This would be great if it didn't have ads screaming every few minutes 😞

@theschooloflifetv

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, we have turned them off now

oh god someone pls tell me which translation is alain using here?? I tried so many but none match this one!!!

@theschooloflifetv

6 ай бұрын

It;s this one: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292003/swanns-way-by-marcel-proust/#:~:text=About%20Swann's%20Way&text=Now%2C%20Penguin%20Classics%20brings%20Proust's,the%20first%20volume%2C%20Swann's%20Way.

It fucking worked. Thank you

Any chance you could edit the audio and reduce the sharpness of the “s” and “tch” sounds? I can unfortunately not use this for falling asleep because of those sounds being so loud in this… 😢

Imagine if @vulf compressor meets School of life