The School of Life: Collected Essays: 15th Anniversary Edition

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The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, we have produced landmark essays on key topics, now gathered together for the first time. Among these, we find:

• On Confidence: a guide to throwing off inhibition and shame in the name of a more free and creative life

• Self-Knowledge: a method for knowing ourselves better in order to make optimal choices in love and work

• Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person: a paradoxically hopeful and wry survey of the trials and joys of marriage

In elegant and always clear prose, the essays take us on a tour around the central topics of emotional life, leaving us enlightened, calmer and readier to greet our inevitable challenges. The book amounts to nothing less than a concise compendium of some of the wisest things we’ll ever need to know.

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Weight 0.79 kg
Dimensions 4.57 × 14.99 × 20.07 cm
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480
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Year Published

2023-10-26
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Edition Number

1st
Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1915087104
About The Author

The School of Life is a global organisation helping people to lead more fulfilled lives. We do this via our articles, books, app, films, therapeutic services and corporate offering.

The School of Life Press brings together the thinking and ideas of the School of Life creative team under the direction of series editor, Alain de Botton. Our range of books and products explore essential topics in psychological and emotional life, including relationships, parenting, friendship, careers and fulfilment.
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‘The perfect gift for anyone looking to reflect more on their own life or to become a better person’ –LoveReading
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A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular and essential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture.

The School of Life is an organization with a mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity.

For the last 15 years, we have produced landmark essays on important life topics, now gathered together for the first time.

Among the essays collected here, conveniently, in one volume:

On Confidence: a guide to throwing off inhibition in the name of a more free and creative life.
Self-Knowledge: a method for knowing ourselves better in order to make optimal choices in love and work.
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person: a hopeful and wry survey of the trials and joys of marriage.

In elegant and clear, helpful prose, these essays take us on a tour around the banner topics of our emotional life, leaving us enlightened, calm and ready to tackle the harder things in life.
This beautiful edition of The School of Life's best advice is a perfect companion to carry around or keep on a bedside table- a concise compendium of some of the wisest things we'll ever need to know.

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