Author: The School of Life

The Compatibility Game is designed to help two people in a relationship (romantic or otherwise) assess their level of compatibility. It helps to a)...

It isnt easy to get into a good conversation. Many of our best ones seem to have happened by chance. Far from it - we believe a great conversation ...

It isnt easy to get into a good conversation. Many of our best ones seem to have happened by chance. Far from it - we believe a great conversation ...

Emotions are like animals: No two are quite the same. Some are quiet; some are fierce; And all are hard to tame. An Emotional Menagerie is an emo...

On Divorce is the debut title in a new portrait photography series by The School of Life. The photographs and accompanying texts were captured and ...

An illustrated guide to emotions that helps children identify and articulate how they are really feeling. What Are You Feeling? is the first in a ...

Love has, quite unfairly, come to be associated with being happy. However, it is also one of the most reliable routes to misery. We tend to treat o...

Work can be a route to creativity, excitement and purpose. Nevertheless, many of us end up confused, discouraged and beaten by our working lives. T...

A beautifully photographic therapeutic novel which teaches us about our own emotions through a young womans journey of self-discovery. This is a n...

A practical guide to finding fulfilling work by understanding yourself. The idea that work might be fulfilling rather than just necessary is a rec...

Our societies frequently proclaim their enormous esteem for culture. Music, film, literature and the visual arts enjoy high prestige and are viewed...

A collection of humanitys most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive. This is an unus...

An honest and accessible guide to finding light in the darkest of times. In a world that isnt short of darkness, there could be few more urgent pr...

A collection of enlightening quotes, delivering some of the most important lessons The School of Life has to offer. This is a selection of the ver...

Many books that seek to change us aspire to make us richer or thinner. This new book wants to help us to be nicer: less irritable, more patient, re...

The world is full of places that inspire and bring us joy: they might be exceptionally beautiful, resonant with history, untouched by civilisation ...

A guide to emotional healing and living a more self-accepting life by learning to love oneself. Behind many of our problems lies an often ignored ...

We are so used to living in a media-saturated world that we do not notice just how much damage is being done to us daily by the images we see and t...

One of the most unexpectedly useful things we can do when were feeling glum or out of sorts is to look at pictures. The best works of art can lift ...

So often, we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures - while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which - ...

A guide to rediscovering niceness as one of the highest of all human achievements. Many books seek to make us richer or thinner. This book wants t...

We dont think we hate cheap things but we frequently behave as if we rather do. Consider the pineapple. The pineapple was once such a status symb...

Its one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same. We marry the wrong ...

This is a book that should never fall into the hands of children for it is filled with the darkest truths about life that might unbearably depress...

A dictionary is a guide to a language. This dictionary is for the distinctive language that The School of Life speaks: that of emotions. It is an a...

Psychotherapy is one of the most valuable inventions of the last hundred years, with an exceptional power to raise our levels of emotional well-bei...

The modern world is richer, safer and more connected than ever before but it is arguably also a far less loving world than we need or want: impat...

Almost no one gets through life without, at some point, having their heart broken. Advice at such a dark moment tends to focus on letting time do t...

Dating might seem a trivial and relatively inconsequential part of love, but it is in fact key to getting into the kind of relationship that can la...

We live under a cheerful delusion that sex might nowadays be easy because we have been liberated from the hang-ups and taboos of days gone by. Yet ...

An essential guide to navigating the complexities of professional relationships. Our colleagues can be the sources of our greatest joys and triump...