Alain De Botton

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Making Sense with Sam Harris · #483 — The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

Sure.

I mean, I'm broadly interested in the slightly paradoxical and elusive sources of human happiness, unhappiness, sorry, that are not really related to material or political shortfalls or events, but broadly lie in the psychological space are amazing human ability.

to make a hell out of often pretty benign circumstances.

I'm fascinated by, as I say, the knots we tie ourselves into.

And I write books.

I operate on YouTube.

As you say, I run this organization called the School of Life in London.

We're interested in emotional education.

And I'm also a psychotherapist.

So I see clients one day a week.

And as well as writing books and things.

I and a colleague are the author of all the books.

Yes.

Wow.

There are a lot of them.

Well, the School of Life has 70 books under its brand, and I've written 15 under my name.

So it's a little too much.

And I leave it to experts to diagnose what the problem might be.

Mm-hmm.

I wonder if I might start in an unusual, slightly unusual and slightly provocative place, which is with religion and with the decline in much of the modern world with what I would be careful to call a religious mindset as opposed to belief.

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