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The School of Life
Digital Connections contains exercises, questions and prompts designed to coax people into the richest sorts of interactions.
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The difference between success and failure often hangs on a concept that our standard education system never touches: confidence. Discover how confidence is based on ideas about our place in…
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Focus on how to improve your instincts and overcome all obstacles to finding that special someone.
This book takes us on a journey into our deepest, most elusive selves and arms us with a set of tools to understand our characters properly.
A fresh approach to modern working life, giving advice for how we may face the many challenges of work.
People who want to express admiration for culture often say it’s valuable ‘for its own sake’. The School of Life disagrees, believing that the world has, up to now, not…
This journal is a tool for self-knowledge; a mirror with which we can study the most elusive and interesting parts of our complex inner selves. n.
A guide to identifying, nurturing and growing our insight and creativity for more effective thinking.
A unique, illustrated guide to the world of work, bringing clarity to children’s essential questions on potential future careers.
A guide to our anxious minds; offering a route to calm, self-compassion and mental well-being Far more than we tend to realise, we’re all - in private - deeply anxious.
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A collection of the essential emotional lessons we need in order to thrive.
A practical guide to balancing and maintaining physical and mental harmony
This essential guide to philosophy reminds us of the wit, humanity and relevance from great philosophers including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Confucius, Lao Tzu and Buddha on thoughts about love, work, anxiety…
A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing.
A parenting guide providing compassionate instruction and insight into raising a resilient well-balanced child.
A practical guide outlining the benefits of drawing as a therapeutic practice followed by 80 guided drawing exercises as an aid to self-understanding and fulfilment.
This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. This book carefully collects and interprets a selection of the most universally recognisable melancholy…
A reassuring guide on how to overcome failure, teaching us that we can learn to fail well.
Exploring ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less.
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An engaging, alternative history of the world for children, which helps to make sense of today.
A compassionate and hopeful guide to achieving emotional wellbeing.
A guide to emotional healing and living a more self-accepting life by learning to love oneself.
A selection of unique and beautiful destinations around the world, which offer powerful new perspectives on life.
A collection of humanity's most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive.
A book to inspire closeness and connection, helping people not only to find love but to make it last.
A guide to developing the art of finding serenity by understanding the sources of our anxiety and frustrations.
A guide to rediscovering niceness as one of the highest of all human achievements.
Explores and appreciates the small pleasures found in everyday life.
A collection of enlightening quotes, delivering some of the most important lessons The School of Life has to offer.
A practical guide to finding fulfilling work by understanding yourself.
An outline for a new kind of wedding ceremony free from theology, with new rituals designed to prepare us for modern marriage.
A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture.
An imaginative and engaging exploration of childhood emotions through poetry and evocative illustration.
A linen bound blank notebook.
A linen bound notebook
A guide to confronting modern social situations with confidence and grace.
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This book examines psychotherapy: what the needs are in all of us to which it caters; the methods by which it addresses these needs - and what the outcome of…
An original and comprehensive look at what it is we seek when we set off on an adventure abroad - and at how we can travel better, so that our…
This book is a guide to better understanding our younger selves in order to shape who we wish to be in the future. It explores to what extent we can…
Accessible philosophy for children; a collection of important concepts from 25 famous thinkers, contextualised in relatable everyday scenarios.
Recommended reading from The School of Life, featuring 100 books that offer therapeutic insight and enlightenment.
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This is a set of twenty beautiful cards, each containing a short essay on a key concept in psychotherapy, creating a pack that offers a perfect introduction to the subject.
This set of cards is designed to gently remind us that we are far stronger than we imagine.
School Of Life
It can be remarkably hard to tell other people how we really feel; it may even be tricky for us to get clear about our own moods. Mostly, if people…
The Loser Game invites us to answer a range of fascinating questions about the challenges we’ve faced (in love, work, etc.) – and rewards players willing to speak with particular…
