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We've published books, we have seen 100,000 people through our doors, we offer therapies of various sorts, and next year we'll open branches in 6 new locations around the globe. We have a good deal of expertise and some wonderful staff doing great work every day. We have been going five years now and we have done a lot. I wanted to make the school a one-stop shop for information about the area of life I call emotional intelligence.

All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day. Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death. I started it from a sense that schools forget to teach you so much of the stuff we need to get by in this world. As the most relentlessly eloquent, entertaining public intellectual in our midst, de Botton occupies a unique if controversial position on both sides of the Atlantic. De Botton has done several popular TED talks (on topics ranging from "A Kinder, Gentler Philosophy of Success" to "Atheism 2.0") and written many other books, including The Architecture of Happiness,The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Religion for Atheists, and Art as Therapy.

In 2009, he became a founding member of the new organization Living Architecture and was elected two years later as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The scion of a wealthy Jewish family, Alain de Botton was born in Zurich and spent the first twelve years of his life in Switzerland (where he was brought up to speak French and German), attended the Dragon School in Oxford (where English became his primary language), and went on to Cambridge and King's College, where he earned a Master's degree in Philosophy.