**2022 New Year's 1st Episode - recorded from Aegina Island, Greece**"It’s natural to think of ourselves as a single person. We have – after all – only one body and answer to only one name. But inside our minds, we are in truth far more like a

Laying down Boundaries

Aug 3rd, 2021 8m 13s

***Recorded live from Berlin, Germany***"Laying down a boundary involves informing those around us – colleagues, parents, children, lovers – of a given set of objectively reasonable things that we are going to require in order to feel respecte

When Home isn't home anymore...

Jul 15th, 2021 4m 7s

**Recorded live from Rome, Italy**"One of the most beautiful and evocative of all words is ‘home’. Folded within it are suggestions of safety, understanding, sympathy, warmth and belonging.But, at points, to our dawning horror, we may be forc

Can People Change?

Jul 4th, 2021 6m 17s

"We ask, typically and acutely, when we’re in a relationship with someone who is inflicting a great deal of pain on us: someone who is refusing to open their hearts or can never stop lying, someone who is aggressive or detached, someone who is

Should we try to Control our Future?

Jun 20th, 2021 3m 12s

"The temptation, when we are worried, is to direct our determined intelligence to trying fully to anticipate whatever may be coming for us down the line. We try to strip the unknown of its surprises; we seek, quite understandably, to nothing le

Dangers of having NOTHING to do anymore

May 23rd, 2021 5m 24s

"For most of our lives, we’re hard at work: we’re up till midnight in the library studying for a degree, we’re learning a trade, building a business, writing a book. We have hardly a moment to ourselves. We don’t even ask whether we are fulfill

Kindness: Need & Necessity

Apr 5th, 2021 5m 50s

**EASTER Special**"As we grow up, we get better at the superficial mechanics of kindness – but not necessarily better at understanding why kindness should matter as it does. The subject remains under some of the strict or sentimental cloud ben

Trauma & Pusillanimity

Mar 19th, 2021 7m 54s

"Some of the reason why we are far more fearful, inhibited and sad than we should be is that we are – unbeknownst to ourselves – wandering through our lives with a huge burden of unresolved and unobserved trauma...A trauma is not merely a terr

Why do I feel so Lonely?

Mar 7th, 2021 8m 43s

***Happy International Women's Day***"Modernity is surely a lonelier place than the world that preceded it. It isn’t ultimately technology (cities, cars or screens) that have made us lonely; it’s an identifiable set of ideas. Being on one’s ow

Why Couples BREAK UP ?

Feb 21st, 2021 8m 9s

***BREAK UP DAY Special***"When people try to account for why couples break up, the emphasis typically falls on the idea of difference: a disorganized creative type was up against a highly managerial ordered one; one of them liked hill walkin

What is Mental Health ?

Feb 21st, 2021 6m 6s

"So efficient and hushed are our brains in their day to day operations, we are apt to miss what an extraordinary and complicated achievement it is to feel mentally well. A mind in a healthy state is, in the background, continually performing a

Should We Play It Cool When We Like Someone?

Feb 13th, 2021 5m 46s

**Valentine's Day special**"One of the paradoxes of the dating game is that we know that by coming across as enthusiastic at an early stage – if we ring them the next day, if we are open about how attractive we find them, if we suggest meeting

In Praise of Unrequited Love

Feb 13th, 2021 7m 26s

**Valentine's Day special**"At any point, millions of love stories are quietly being spun by one person while the object of their adoration goes about their business blithely unconcerned. Someone watches someone else on a train, casts surrepti

Crushes: Charm & Madness

Feb 13th, 2021 12m 11s

**Valentine's Day special**"Crushes: they happen to some people often and to almost everyone sometimes. Airports, trains, streets, conferences – the dynamics of modern life are forever throwing us into fleeting contact with strangers, from amo

Why Only the Happy Single Find True Love

Feb 13th, 2021 2m 51s

**Valentine's Day special**One of the most important principles for choosing a lover sensibly is not to feel in any hurry to make a choice. Being satisfied with being single is a precondition of satisfactory coupledom. We cannot choose wisely

2 Reasons why we might still be single

Feb 13th, 2021 7m 46s

**Valentine's Day special**"The common-sense explanation for long-term singlehood directs the blame firmly outwards, it isolates the problem to one of mechanics: one is still single because one hasn’t, perhaps on account of having moved to a v

What is Love ?

Feb 13th, 2021 14m 22s

**Valentine's Day special**"One way to get a sense of why love should matter so much, why it might be considered close to the meaning of life, is to look at the challenges of loneliness. Too often, we leave the topic of loneliness unmentioned:

What they forget to teach you at school - (Pilot episode)

Feb 13th, 2021 7m 10s

"The modern world treats education with unique seriousness. Never in the history of humanity have so much thought and so many resources been devoted to the development of the minds of the next generation. In all advanced nations, until a human

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Introduce myself, Allow me to

Feb 13th, 2021 6m 51s

Yoda, much ? Welcome to my first -and as of now only-podcast, “Yours Transcendentally” by the one and not only- *drumroll noises*- RAJ !A bit of irrelevant background info- My name is Rajdeep and I am a native of India, but currently residing

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