Collected Essays

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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 Show more