The School of Life is an organisation 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 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.
I found this to be a remarkable collection of essays encompassing a wide range of topics, from introspection to marriage. These essays, while deeply personal, offer lessons that can help foster personal growth.
Rather than reading this in one continuous session, I chose to savour a few essays each day, and it turned out to be the ideal approach. This is a book that benefits from being consumed in small doses, making it an excellent source of inspiration for journaling. Each essay prompted me to contemplate its contents, and had I been someone who regularly journaled, I would have relished the opportunity for deeper introspection.
I looked forward to taking some time out of my day to read this and would love to read the other The School of Life now that I’ve had a taste. I’d love to get more into journaling so if anyone has any advice, please let me know.
Thank you so much to The School of Life as well as the team at Tandem Collective UK for running this book tour and read-along!
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