LDN Talks @ Night: Recent Episodes
Interviews with London's leading thinkers.
Jules Evans is Policy Director at the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London and a leading researcher into ecstatic experience. He also runs the world's biggest philosophy club, the London Philosophy Club, which has over 6,000 members. Jules’ first book, Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations was published in 19 countries and was selected by Matthew Syed as a Times Book of the Year. He has written for The Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Spectator and WIRED and is a BBC New Generation Thinker.
He has just published 'The Art of Losing Control - A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experiences.' In the book, Jules goes on a journey to discover how people find ecstasy in a post-religious culture, how it can be good for us, and also harmful.
Along the way, he explores the growing science of ecstasy, to help the reader – and himself – learn the art of losing control.
In this short interview, we discuss:
- Why Jules wrote this book
- How Jules' 'messed himself up' as a teenager doing drugs
- How he recovered from anxiety, depression and post traumatic stress using CBT, philosophy and psychology
- How ecstatic experiences has always been a fundamental part of human culture
- What Greek philosophy missed out on
- Jules' personal experiences with ecstasy
- PTSD vs Post Traumatic Growth
- The different ways people have ecstatic experiences in modern society
- The influx of Eastern traditions into Western Culture
You can get tickets for Jules' talk here: http://bit.ly/2qz6CI6
On this episode, we were joined by Alexlouise Brown - one of our regular speakers at London Talks @ Night.
Alex has a pretty interesting story - from leaving school at 15, retiring at 32 and acquiring over two million pounds worth of property.
We discuss Alex's journey, her philosophy towards money and success, and how she helps her coaching clients make transformational changes to their lives.
In a wide ranging conversation, we touch on things like:
- How to find a mentor
- The importance of being different but also being able to connect with others
- Escaping the rat race
- The dangers of comfort
- & a lot more
If interested in learning more from Alex Louise, you can get tickets for her next talk by clicking the link below:
http://bit.ly/2oYGc1o
Or you can contact her directly on alexlouise7@gmail.com.
Enjoy the show!
This is an interview with serial entrepreneur Jonathan Straight.
Jonathan is most famous for founding Straight plc - the UK’s leading supplier of waste and recycling container solutions.
In his '10 Commandments of Entrepreneurship talk', Jonathan talks about his journey from founding the company in 1993 with little more than a phone, a fax machine, and a car, to growing it into multi million pound business which he floated on the stock exchange and later exited in an 8 figure deal.
Jonathan's next talk with us is on Tuesday 23rd May, and you can get your tickets here: http://bit.ly/2q88f20