The School of Life’s Self‑Improvement Journal is an invitation t o regularly check in on ourselves—what we want, where we want to change, where we need to go. The journal helps us to carve out time to focus on someone who is often too easily neglected: ourselves. With the help of some well-focused and proven questions accross 192 pages, the journal prompts us to clarify our goals, assess our options and plot a route to a flourishing future. At Misc Store we also carry the Self-Reflection Journal, guiding you towards reduced anxiety, clearer priorities, and a more mature, contented outlook. Details Measures 21,6 x 13,5Counts 192 pagesFeatures hardcover The School of Life x Misc Store Amsterdam Alain de Botton founded The School of Life in 2008. His aim was to make philosophy — long seen as the inaccessible, inauthentic stuff of academies and archives — a functional aspect of modern life. The care with which ancient philosophers thought about their lives remains a valuable antidote to the generalised anxiety of our era. The school thus posits that ideas of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics are as relevant to us today as they were in ancient Greece. Even if Epicurus never had social media burnout, understanding his thinking can lead us to a healthier relationship with, for example, our phones — and by extension, with one another.We began stocking The School of Life’s series on work, gratitude and pleasure as a way of thinking through modern day issues. We admire their series for the capacity to stimulate reflection, and their ability to give a new perspective on age old problems. At its core, it is a set of strategies for finding meaning in the modern world — so that we can appreciate small pleasures and the things that might go unnoticed.
