Based on his Netflix comedy special, "Blocks." Neal Brennan interviews friends and colleagues about the things that make them feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how they are persevering despite these blocks.
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Based on his Netflix comedy special, "Blocks." Neal Brennan interviews friends and colleagues about the things that make them feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how they are persevering despite these blocks.
Neal Brennan interviews Alain de Botton (The School of Life) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks.
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00:00 Intro
00:33 Philosophy as self-therapy
3:24 ‘Status Anxiety’ & Career Snobbery
5:30 You Will Marry the Wrong Person
11:40 The Tragedy of Baldness
14:02 Philosopher to Psychotherapy
16:55 Healing
19:50 Putting Your Wound To Use
20:40 Self-Pity
27:35 Difficulty of Changing
30:33 Love
32:36 Religion & Spirituality
40:14 Fatherhood
44:27 How The School of Life is Advice to Himself
45:49 Friendship
49:00 Neal & Alain become friends
50:28 Sponsor: BetterHelp
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55:45 Love vs. Friendship
57:10 Ending Relationships
1:00:30 Advice & Wisdom
1:03:50 What Constitutes a “Good Friend”
1:08:50 Need for Validation
1:12:30 Sponsor: Tushy
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1:18:27 What He Wishes He Could Do-Over
1:19:55 Being Flawed
1:21:35 American Ambition
1:23:55 Starting a Monestary
1:26:02 Panic
1:31:50 Philosophy as a Defense-Mechanism
1:33:40 Who Knows Themselves?
1:38:34 Reacting to his own quotes
2:01:40 Outro
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Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased).
Edited by Will Hagle
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Blocks w/ Neal Brennan
Based on his Netflix comedy special, "Blocks." Neal Brennan interviews friends and colleagues about the things that make them feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how they are persevering despite these blocks.
