Author: The School of Life

Many of us are attracted to the idea of marriage and yet feel a bit uncomfortable with some of the rituals that are traditionally associated with t...

Philosophy is a discipline committed to helping us live wiser and less sorrowful lives. This book artfully draws together forty of the greatest and...

20 unique prints encapsulating the most important lessons The School of Life has to teach. Art is never merely decoration. From cave paintings to ...

Children love to explore, born with a boundless desire to understand the world around them. While most of the outside world has already been mapped...

This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. Melancholy isnt depression or anger or bitterness, ...

Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when auton...

Happiness is a loaded term that means different things to different people. To some, it might mean life satisfaction, to others, a fleeting moment ...

In Ancient Greece, when the philosopher Socrates was asked to sum up what all philosophical commandments could be reduced to, he replied: Know your...

To wonder too openly or intensely about the meaning of life can seem a peculiar, ill-fated and faintly ridiculous pastime. It can seem like a topic...

There is no simple set of instructions that can guarantee sanity, but if you want to overcome emotional difficulties and become happier, psychother...

The desire for fulfilling work is one of the great aspirations of our age and this inspirational book reveals how one might make it a reality. It e...

Break free of your destructive relationship with money, and learn how money can actually make you happy with How to Worry Less About Money.Our rela...

Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing; but for those living in the modern world, the pendulum has swung far in the other directio...

The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish ...

No one is born to lead. This is the idea at the heart of this thoughtful book on leadership. Popular culture feeds us images of the square-jawed, s...

Being a parent can be one of the sources of our greatest joys. It is also - intermittently - the cause of some of our deepest sorrows. It is like...

Choosing a romantic partner is one of contemporary life's biggest adventures. But other aspects of modern living being globally more mobile, a fal...

''The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge'' Independent on Sunday Friedrich Nietzsche was ...

Few things promise us greater happiness than our relationships - yet few things more reliably deliver misery and frustration. Our error is to suppo...

Few life skills are as neglected, yet as important, as the ability to remain calm. Our very worst decisions and interactions are almost invariably ...

Our societies are remarkably confident on the matter: affairs are terrible things and only fools, monsters and knaves would ever be involved in the...

Many of us find ourselves in the odd situation of not believing in religion but nevertheless being interested in it, moved by it and sympathetic t...

The idea that work might be fulfilling rather than just painfully necessary is a strikingly recent invention. Nowadays, in prosperous areas of the ...