{"id":4795,"date":"2020-03-18T14:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/?p=4795\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T14:42:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T14:42:14","slug":"big-ideas-curious-minds-school-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/en\/2020\/03\/18\/big-ideas-curious-minds-school-life\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;BIG IDEAS FOR CURIOUS MINDS&#8221; by The School of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Big-ideas-for-curious-minds-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4787\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Big-ideas-for-curious-minds-1-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Big-ideas-for-curious-minds-1-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Big-ideas-for-curious-minds-1.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>I always wanted to read philosophy, but I was afraid that I would not be smart enough to understand it.\u00a0Luckily for me, the company invented by Alain de Botton, &#8220;The School of Life&#8221;, printed a book to explain philosophy to the children. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And this is how I read &#8220;Big ideas for curious minds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed it so much, and I found it so useful for everyday life, that I started to send e-mail to my sons, once a week.<br \/>\nThe e-mails contained two parts. The first part was the summary of the lesson, including a little biography of the philosopher who developed the idea. The second part was my personal intake of the lesson. In other words, most of the time, I told them the mistakes I have made in my life or the few times I got it right (precisely like the philosophers thinking).<\/p>\n<p>One of the lesson is: The news doesn&#8217;t always tell the whole story.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;The news tend to concentrate on the bad things that happen in the world, to keep people informed and to keep them interested, but if we watch a lot of news we can begin to feel as everything in the world is awful. <br \/>\nIt isn&#8217;t.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Actually, lots of good and wise things are going on as well&#8211;it is just that they don&#8217;t get the same attention as the bad things, so they are harder to notice.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>When you watch or read the news it is important to remember that it is only usually showing you a very tiny selection of what is going on in the world. <br \/>\nThe world is not such a bad place&#8211;you&#8217;re just not being shown the good bits.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jacques Derrida was the French philosopher who developed this idea.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Derrida was very curious about what people say, and also what they don&#8217;t say &#8212; the things people keep quiet about or don&#8217;t want to pay attention to. 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They are doing it so they can keep saying something else&#8211;so they can pretend.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>It&#8217;s the same sometimes with newspapers and the news: they do not just forget that lots of nice or normal things are going on all the time; they actually want to make it seem like the world is more dramatic and dangerous than it really is.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">THE SCHOOL OF LIFE PRESS, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always wanted to read philosophy, but I was afraid that I would not be smart enough to understand it.\u00a0Luckily for me, the company invented by Alain de Botton, &#8220;The School of Life&#8221;, printed a book to explain philosophy to the children. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 And this is how I read &#8220;Big ideas for curious minds&#8221;. 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