E1012 - #1012 - Alex O’Connor & Joe Folley - Is Being Smart Worth the Depression?

Alex O’Connor is a YouTuber, writer and a podcaster.

Joe Folley is a philosopher, writer, and host of the Unsolicited Advice YouTube channel.

Philosophy has spent thousands of years trying to teach us how to live well. But the deeper you go, the darker it gets. So what’s the point? What can we take from all that heaviness—and how do we find beauty in the darkness to make our own lives better?

Expect to learn if philosophy always meant to be practically applicable, or if that is that a modern reinte...