Virtuous Dishonesty - Alain de Botton Explains Why Dishonesty and Secrets are a Vital Part of Love

This is an excerpt from a talk Alain de Botton gave at Zeitgeist London in 2016, in which he details the problems with the notion that total honesty should be encouraged in love, and why mutual education is so important to the health of a long term relationship. He finishes by putting forward a more reasonable definition of love: being generous in the interpretation of the behaviour of another person.

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  • @martinsimbona6145
    @martinsimbona61455 жыл бұрын

    Alain's humor is just amazing

  • @beldonhuang
    @beldonhuang Жыл бұрын

    Indeed, love is not only built on top of sexual/romantic attraction, but also the energy, time and patience that is put into improving and learning about each other and fixing the cracks along the way, which a lot of times is definitely not fun. However, this is exactly where the beauty and meaning of love lies, which is, regardless of our differences, the difficulties we have encountered or will encounter, we still choose to stay with each other and love each other.

  • @nastaranamini6966
    @nastaranamini69666 ай бұрын

    oh the more i listen to you the more i can learn i think, and believe me that's the feeling of relief, thank you for sharing your wisdom&knowledge with the world

  • @gingervidrine9635
    @gingervidrine96355 жыл бұрын

    I’m going to try it. “How are you mad?”

  • @angelablackthorne3026

    @angelablackthorne3026

    4 жыл бұрын

    I love that!

  • @amyjacquelineg.9541

    @amyjacquelineg.9541

    4 жыл бұрын

    Check please! 😄

  • @o.b.v.i.u.s
    @o.b.v.i.u.s4 жыл бұрын

    *_"I've ruined my life; I've married an idiot!"_* 🤣 🤣 🤣

  • @hunbundoe7627
    @hunbundoe76276 жыл бұрын

    I love the humor!! Very well said and received!

  • @rmcd823
    @rmcd8234 жыл бұрын

    Besides Alain De Botton is simply hilarious 😂, I agree TOTALLY! Brilliant!

  • @prakwillem
    @prakwillem7 жыл бұрын

    This channel broadcasts both Alain de Boton as Jordan Peterson. Would be a thrill to have them engage in a conversation with each other.

  • @martinsimbona6145

    @martinsimbona6145

    5 жыл бұрын

    I have listened to both and they never seem to engage similar issues/level.

  • @marialondon1411

    @marialondon1411

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ive never met any of them however Alain appears to have a good sense of humour while Peterson does not

  • @Birthdaycakesmom

    @Birthdaycakesmom

    3 жыл бұрын

    I far prefer Alain, as he who is realistic while also being comforting. Rather than follow rules outside of ourselves, as Peterson suggests, de Boton encourages us, however dangerous, to listen to ourselves because we already know the rules, and if we don’t, we will soon. Rather than tell us the direction to go, as Peterson does, Alain makes it easier to accept ourselves exactly as we are, and if we are disappointed with what we see, that’s probably a good thing, because so is everyone else. Jordan Peterson provides a map, whereas Alain de Boton simply shows where we are already going, and why.

  • @Joey-cr4xc
    @Joey-cr4xc2 жыл бұрын

    I enjoyed this, so humorous yet insightful!

  • @Low_commotion
    @Low_commotion7 жыл бұрын

    Great video, these points are elaborated enough, and you get the harmful perfectionist attitude that many people carry into love.

  • @zahrahammad8100
    @zahrahammad81006 жыл бұрын

    I love him ❤❤❤

  • @davidkepke1435
    @davidkepke14355 жыл бұрын

    Im starting to think that psychologists don’t really know any of the answers to any of this.

  • @Heirphoria13
    @Heirphoria133 жыл бұрын

    Glad I found this, comedians are short supply today.

  • @karlahnee
    @karlahnee5 жыл бұрын

    Pure gold

  • @honestfungus
    @honestfungus4 жыл бұрын

    hey. they have this in video

  • @cineoitoum
    @cineoitoum6 жыл бұрын

    "Most adults look like adults"

  • @ZukunftBilden
    @ZukunftBilden7 жыл бұрын

    How do you create an audio Animations like the one in this video?

  • @dcupmusic

    @dcupmusic

    7 жыл бұрын

    adobe after effects

  • @ponderatulify
    @ponderatulify7 жыл бұрын

    What about attraction.

  • @shafiqhahefandi5701
    @shafiqhahefandi57017 жыл бұрын

    You laugh, but it's true

  • @majasimic8484
    @majasimic84842 жыл бұрын

    A

  • @practicalintuition4030
    @practicalintuition40305 жыл бұрын

    Less than one minute into the video and I already don't agree. I don't agree that humans are always on the brink of insanity. A few more minutes into it and I just feel like he's rambling without getting to any kind of point.

  • @thecastle09
    @thecastle096 жыл бұрын

    Ugh:(!!!!!

  • @TheFrygar
    @TheFrygar7 жыл бұрын

    Is this the guy who got absolutely demolished and embarrassed by Steven Pinker in that debate a while back?

  • @angelablackthorne3026

    @angelablackthorne3026

    4 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/qIafmbh_fKuTkag.html He's really speaking mostly to people of his own class. He's describing romanticism and conflicting beliefs. I think his point is that you can be a good teacher in love and do it kindly and gently. Sometimes you have married an idiot, sometimes you've married a malignant narcissist, and you don't find out until long after the wedding... he's actually not speaking to the extremes but to the average person in a relationship. He's a philosopher, not a psychologist.

  • @yoyoclodie

    @yoyoclodie

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@angelablackthorne3026 I agree that he doesn't need to have studied psychology for 6 to 8 years to be completely right

  • @roelofventer1729
    @roelofventer17297 жыл бұрын

    As a person who suffers from "nice guy syndrome" I find this very confusing and not very helpful.

  • @serene207

    @serene207

    7 жыл бұрын

    A generalisation: a person who only behaves nicely is not being honest about what is going on inside them. They want and expect another person to mirror their behaviour. It is an unconscious rule they set up. The video recommends being more self aware and expressive than that.

  • @thecastle09

    @thecastle09

    6 жыл бұрын

    Roelof Venter nice guys are fucked

  • @Alphacentauri819

    @Alphacentauri819

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sometimes “nice” guys are the worst... Because, often, they aren’t being authentic. They are putting on a facade, riddled with expectations of a women since they’re so “nice”. A guy who isn’t so “nice”, but real.... we don’t worry about the rug being pulled out. What you see is what you get with a more real guy, who can have very kind and nice traits...but aren’t a “nice guy” “Nice guys” can be scary. I worry about what’s brewing underneath. I fear they are the psychopaths hiding.

  • @gaiagaia6353
    @gaiagaia63536 жыл бұрын

    We all have the ability for telepathy but our bodies and minds have been poisoned by societies rules and beliefs.

  • @megaposter2437
    @megaposter24377 жыл бұрын

    If you've seen one school of life episode you've seen all of them, and listening to this is also unnecessary.

  • @meinungabundance7696

    @meinungabundance7696

    7 жыл бұрын

    oh well, good that you have not become a philosopher. you have no clue.

  • @megaposter2437

    @megaposter2437

    7 жыл бұрын

    If I'm so wrong then why don't you prove me wrong?

  • @user-kb7oe5wr7c

    @user-kb7oe5wr7c

    6 жыл бұрын

    Mega Poster Yeah, because hearing something once is totally enough to change the way you think

  • @kinkyplunk

    @kinkyplunk

    6 жыл бұрын

    That must be why it's so successful....