How to Be an Adult
Latest Episodes
How to Be a Leader (Ep. 10)
If you do adult life well enough, eventually youll be considered such an exemplar of adult behaviour that your boss will ask you to lead other people, or you will naturally end up being a leader by virtue of having more skill or knowledge. But promotions
What They Didn’t Teach You About Work and Money (Ep. 9)
So many of us grew up hearing from adults that work is necessarily hard, or that money is necessarily hard to come by. Yet younger generations have exceeded their parents in many ways, and work does not need to be an exception. In this episode, we share s
How to Care for Your Body (Ep. 8)
For the first 18 years of your life, your parents were responsible for ensuring that you had adequate food, clothes and shelter. Once you reach adulthood, its you, not your parents, who hold this responsibility. But unless weve been show how to perform
How to Care for Your Mind and Emotions (Ep. 7)
By the time we reach adulthood, were expected to be responsible for our own thoughts and emotions: we cant just blame other people every time were unhappy or upset. But if you didnt learn how to be happy and relaxed in childhood, how can you expect to
Why Live a Principled Life? (Ep. 6)
Throughout this podcast, weve made the case (and we will continue to make the case) that living an excellent life requires us to abide by a set of principles that are universal enough that we could say they are in accordance with human nature. But why? A
Why You Must Exceed Your Parents (Ep. 5)
You can find many people and traditions that will tell you to honour and respect your parents. In this episode, we make a case for why, in adulthood, you must exceed your parents too. Unless we do this, society will become more closed and intolerant, rath
Childhood Lessons You Must Unlearn (Ep. 4)
In most households and in schools, the rules for children are different from the rules for adults. But the time you reach adulthood, these childhood rules become obsolete and have to be abandoned. In this episode, we identify several of these childhood le
Your Place in the World (Ep. 3)
In this episode, Luke and Pascal speak about how to relate to other human beings as an adult, and more generally, your place in the world. We start by speaking about the importance of approaching other people with a metaphorical cup thats full or running
How to Be an Adult: The Untold Lesson (Ep. 2)
In this episode, were going to delve into a philosophy of adulthood that makes it empowering and liberating, rather than onerous and burdensome. We challenge a few popular notions, like that self-love is self-centred, or that truth is irrelevant in a wor
What Is an Adult? (Ep. 1)
Our team has launched a new podcast, called How to Be an Adult. Its the trail guide to life that you should have received when you turned 18, but didnt. Whether youre 18 or 80, we intend to help you to feel like an equal to your peers, and to live exce