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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

Customer Reviews (4.6 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Ava N. ★★★★★

I've been dipping into this collection for fifteen minutes before bed each night and the essays on self-knowledge have genuinely shifted how I react to stressful situations. The paper quality is nice and the binding lays flat enough to read comfortably one-handed. It's the kind of book you keep on t

Brian D. ★★★★★

The essays on emotional maturity hit exactly where I needed them this year—each one is short enough to digest before bed but lingers in your head for days. I've reread the self-knowledge section three times now, and it keeps revealing something new.

Kevin ★★★★★

I read one essay each morning with my coffee, and the way it breaks down emotional maturity into real, practical insights has genuinely shifted how I react to stressful moments at work. The 15-year span of collected wisdom means there's always something that fits whatever I'm wrestling with that day

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