How to Be an Adult

How to Be an Adult


Latest Episodes

How to Be a Leader (Ep. 10)
December 19, 2023

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)
December 05, 2023

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)
November 21, 2023

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)
November 07, 2023

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)
October 24, 2023

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)
October 10, 2023

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)
September 26, 2023

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)
September 12, 2023

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)
August 31, 2023

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)
August 25, 2023

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