This week on the channel +1.1M views this week
Heartbreak finds a creative outlet at The School of Life
An animated essay brings Dante, Fleetwood Mac and Phil Collins into a conversation about what romantic loss can unlock.
YouTube channel
The School of Life
@theschooloflifetv · The channel on YouTube
Website: theschooloflife.com
In short
The School of Life has 9,800,000 subscribers and 1,010,607,683 views in all, as of October 24, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 10,000 subscribers and 1,409,202 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "What Years of Heartbreak Actually Teach Us", with 174,014 views. By subscribers it is No. 264 of the 5,387 channels on Trari, and No. 1 of 29 in category "Self-improvement and productivity".
The numbers today
subscribers
9,800,000
▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days
total views
1,010,607,683
▲ 1,409,202 in the last 7 days
views a day (current pace)
203,742
on a typical day: 198,842
Videos on the channel
1,257
3 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
3 days ago
October 21, 2026
Views per subscriber
103
a new long video usually gets 159,304 views
a new short video usually gets 65,362 views
a new short video usually gets 65,362 views
Next milestone
10,000,000 subscribers
at the current pace: in about 140 days
What happened lately
October 23, 2026 7.1x its usual comments The Sex Starved Relationship The video drew 235 comments in its first day, 7.1 times a normal first day on this channel (33).
This week on the channel +1.1M views this week
Toasters become museum pieces in The School of Life's week
Three new uploads move between appreciating everyday objects, choosing difficult partners and resisting the pressure to couple up.
This week on the channel 2 videos this week
The School of Life's couples video pulls twice its short's pace
Both uploads went up on the same Wednesday, and the longer look at closeness and distance is gathering views a little more than twice as fa…
The video drawing the most views now
Why Heartbreak Can Be the Making of You
- Video published
- October 21, 2026
- Video views so far
- 118,322
- Video views, pace per day
- 21,526
- Views on its first day
- 73,642
Similar channels
Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Self-improvement and productivity | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 264 of 5,387 | 1 of 29 |
| By views gained this week | 2,465 of 5,295 | 6 of 29 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 1.7% of all views the category's channels gained this week
- Subscriber growth this week
- 0.1% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel
Subscribers in the category Self-improvement and productivity
Views gained this week in the category Self-improvement and productivity
Subscribers, last 30 days
September 26, 2026: 9,790,000 subscribers → October 24, 2026: 9,800,000 subscribers
Total views, last 30 days
September 26, 2026: 1,005,479,435 views → October 24, 2026: 1,010,607,683 views · average: 183,151 views a day
The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 26.4 in the category: 37.1
- comments per 1,000 views
- 0.9 in the category: 1.4
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 38,365 views
- short vs long
- 10 short (up to 3 minutes), 5 long
average views per short video: 69,275
average views per long video: 137,894
Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 Why Socrates Hated Democracy | November 28, 2016 | 4:22 | 14,435,429 |
 The Philosophy of Oral Sex | April 8, 2015 | 2:57 | 12,874,436 |
 POLITICAL THEORY - Karl Marx | December 19, 2014 | 9:27 | 10,379,561 |
 Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person | August 13, 2017 | 22:20 | 10,103,168 |
 Machiavelli’s Advice For Nice Guys | February 10, 2017 | 5:17 | 9,265,030 |
Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 Why Unloved People Hate Themselves #shorts #selfcare | April 20, 2024 | 0:58 | 2,437,731 |
 How To Be Very Attractive #shorts #dating #attractive | April 13, 2024 | 0:59 | 1,780,914 |
 How to Choose Your Partner Wisely #animation #psychology #… | April 19, 2025 | 0:55 | 620,421 |
 The Secret Power of Missing Someone #shorts #relationship… | June 22, 2024 | 0:57 | 469,941 |
 What Truly Makes a Relationship Worth Staying In? | March 4, 2026 | 1:08 | 357,995 |
What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- Video people are talking aboutThe Sex Starved Relationship The video drew 235 comments in its first day, 7.1 times a normal first day on this channel (33).
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 596,175 views a day, 3.9 times a normal day (154,089).
Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
Stories
This week on the channel +1.1M views this week
Heartbreak finds a creative outlet at The School of Life
An animated essay brings Dante, Fleetwood Mac and Phil Collins into a conversation about what romantic loss can unlock.
This week on the channel +1.1M views this week
Toasters become museum pieces in The School of Life's week
Three new uploads move between appreciating everyday objects, choosing difficult partners and resisting the pressure to couple up.
This week on the channel 2 videos this week
The School of Life's couples video pulls twice its short's pace
Both uploads went up on the same Wednesday, and the longer look at closeness and distance is gathering views a little more than twice as fa…
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