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The School of Life

HOW MUSIC, FILM, LITERATURE AND VISUAL ART • operate in our society and lives. 
EXPLORES CULTURAL MASTERPIECES • and how they relate to our everyday lives. 
ILLUSTRATED • with full color images throughout. 
THOUGHT-PROVOKING CONCEPTS • that enhance any future visit to a gallery, theater or cinema. 
BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED • premium gift format.

Essay Books

What Is Culture For?

A REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO CAPITALISMROOTED IN HUMAN PSYCHOLOGYFULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT

How to Reform Capitalism

A fresh perspective on how psychotherapy can be universally effective.

Psychotherapy is one of the most valuable inventions of the last hundred years, with an exceptional power to raise our levels of emotional well-being, enhance our relationships, heal the wounds of the past, and help us mine our professional potential. But it is also profoundly misunderstood science.

Working with a therapist can make us less angry, improve our confidence, and, perhaps most importantly, make us more loving towards ourselves and others.

Through engaging historical analysis and relevant case studies, this book explains psychotherapy in depth: why we need it, how treatment works, and what the outcome of a therapeutic intervention looks like. The book argues that psychotherapy is the single greatest step any of us can take towards self-understanding and fulfillment.

This book attempts to explain psychotherapy: why it is needed by us all, how those needs are addressed by treatment and what the outcome of a therapeutic intervention could be. The book reflects a fundamental belief of The School of Life that psychotherapy is the single greatest step any of us can take towards self-understanding and fulfillment. A course of therapy stands to render us ever so slightly less angry, self-defeating, unconfident, lost and sad.

PSYCHOTHERAPY EXPLAINED • a demystifying guide to the purpose and meaning of psychotherapy.

UNLOCK THE POWER OF THERAPY • to improve self love, communication, trust, and honesty.

EXPLORES POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC OUTCOMES • using case studies as examples.

DEBUNKS COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS • about the science of psychotherapy.

What Is Psychotherapy?

The School Of Life

A practical guide to knowing yourself.

Socrates summed up all philosophical commandments with one directive: "Know yourself." Self-knowledge informs not only our identity, but how we make decisions in life, work, and love. Society has no shortage of people and organizations offering to guide us to distant places, but very few will help us with the far more important task of traveling around the byways of our own minds. This book takes us on a journey into our deepest, most elusive selves and arms us with the tools we need in order to fully understand our characters. We come away with a newly clarified sense of who we are, what we need to watch out for when making decisions, and how to fulfill our true potential.

EXPLORES THE LIFE-CHANGING POWER OF UNDERSTANDING OURSELVESA PRACTICAL TOOLKIT • for self-discovery.
INCLUDES THOUGHT-PROVOKING EXERCISES • for self-analysis.
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE'S MOST POPULAR SUBJECT • the associated YouTube video "Who Am I?" has 1.5 million views.

Fiona Buckland

Self-Knowledge

A thought-provoking essay that teaches us that confidence is not a gift from the gods, but a skill that can be learned.

We spend vast amounts of time acquiring confidence in narrow technical fields: quadratic equations or bioengineering; economics or pole vaulting. But we overlook the primordial need to acquire a more free ranging variety of confidence—one that can serve us across a range of tasks: speaking to strangers at parties, asking someone to marry us, suggesting a fellow passenger turn down their music, changing the world.

This is a guidebook to confidence, why we lack it and how we can acquire more of it in our lives. On Confidence walks us gently and wryly around the key issues that stop us from making more of our potential.

Alain de Botton

On Confidence

A pessimist's guide to marriage.

Anyone we might marry could be wrong for us - even just a little bit. We know that perfection is not in the cards. And yet, errors of deep-seated incompatibility in married couples seem to occur regularly. 

This informative (and funny) book examines the reasons why - and then suggests a new approach to marriage. The time has come to bury the Romantic intuition-based view of marriage and learn to practice and rehearse marriage as one would ice-skating or violin playing, activities no more deserving of systematic periods of institution.

BASED ON THE NEW YORK TIMES MOST-READ ARTICLE OF 2016A THOUGHT-PROVOKING ESSAY COLLECTION • about relationships and marriage. 
A PESSIMIST'S GUIDE TO MARRIAGE • offering insight, practical advice, and consolation.

Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person: A pessimist’s guide to marriage, offering insight, practical advice, and consolation

A UNIQUE MEDITATION ON THE COMPLEXITIES OF LOVEA CONSOLING TOOLKIT • for navigating the despair and heartbreak that come hand in hand with love.
ILLUSTRATED WITH FULL COLOR IMAGES THROUGHOUTPART OF THE SCHOOL OF LIFE'S GIFTABLE ESSAYS SERIES • other titles include 
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person • , 
Why We Hate Cheap Things • , and 
Self-Knowledge • .

The Sorrows of Love

A fresh approach to our careers, offering hopeful solutions to a myriad of professional challenges. 

Work can be a source of creativity, excitement, and purpose. Yet many of us find ourselves confused, discouraged, and exhausted by our jobs. We are often tempted to blame ourselves, and to feel privately ashamed by our jobs. However, as this book lucidly explains, there are many reasons why our jobs demoralize us, including the evolution of modern work, the role of technology, and the mechanics of the economy.

The Sorrows of Work offers an invigorating and optimistic perspective on our working lives - and presents the skills and tools we need to overcome any professional challenge.

AN INVIGORATING GUIDE • to the professional challenges we all face.
ILLUSTRATED • with full color images throughout.
FRESH CAREER PERSPECTIVES • from The School of Life
BUILD THE SKILLS • you need to thrive in your career.

The Sorrows of Work

How to rethink your consumer habits and feel richer at heart.

Our society encourages us to equate expense with value. The more expensive something is, the more we're encouraged to covet it. Yet as its market price falls, our interest and passion tend to fade.

This recurrent pattern, The School of Life argues, is a cultural misfortune. We need to rethink our patterns of consumption. Why We Hate Cheap Things considers how to do so, and reveals how most of us already have more than we need. With humor and utility, the book teaches us how the practice of gratitude can lead us to a more meaningful understanding of wealth.

A COMMON SENSE APPROACH TO ECONOMICSEXPLORES IDEAS ABOUT MONEY, WORTH, AND WEALTH • through a philosophical lens.
A REFRESHING REMINDER TO APPRECIATING WHAT WE HAVE • rather than coveting what we don't.
ILLUSTRATED • with full color images throughout.

Why We Hate Cheap Things

A practical guide to making wiser, more informed choices in love.

Finding and choosing a partner is one of the most consequential decisions we will ever make. This guide explains everything from why we have "types" and how our early lives inform our romantic decisions as adults. It sheds light on harmful and repetitive patterns and provides insight on how to break them.

Drawing on in-depth analysis, How to Find Love explains our instinct for romantic self-sabotage and provides a crucial set of ideas to help us make safer, more imaginative and more effective choices in love.

A GUIDE TO MAKING BETTER DECISIONS IN LOVE: • and how to choose the "right" partner.
PRESENTS THE TOOLS WE NEED: • to break unhealthy relationship habits.
PART OF THE SCHOOL OF LIFE'S GIFTABLE ESSAYS SERIES: • other titles include 
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person • , 
Why We Hate Cheap Things • , and 
Self-Knowledge • .
DRAWS FROM THE SCHOOL OF LIFE'S CORE CURRICULUM

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