Collected Essays
Reflections on self-knowledge, emotional maturity and calm
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 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
- Self-Knowledge
- Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
- What is Psychotherapy?
- How to Find Love
- The Sorrows of Love
- Why We Hate Cheap Things
- What is Culture For?
- How to Reform Capitalism
- The Sorrows of Work
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.
Hardback book | 480 pages | 197mm x 145mm
Reflections on self-knowledge, emotional maturity and calm
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 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
- Self-Knowledge
- Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
- What is Psychotherapy?
- How to Find Love
- The Sorrows of Love
- Why We Hate Cheap Things
- What is Culture For?
- How to Reform Capitalism
- The Sorrows of Work
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.
Hardback book | 480 pages | 197mm x 145mm
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Reflections on self-knowledge, emotional maturity and calm
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 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
- Self-Knowledge
- Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
- What is Psychotherapy?
- How to Find Love
- The Sorrows of Love
- Why We Hate Cheap Things
- What is Culture For?
- How to Reform Capitalism
- The Sorrows of Work
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.
Hardback book | 480 pages | 197mm x 145mm
