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Everyday Adventures - Re Discover Wonder and Excitement by The School of Life
Category: Self
Re-Discover Wonder and Excitement with these fun adventure cardsAdulting is hard! One of our deepest urges is for life to be more adventurous: a little more excitement, playfulness, interest and passion. Unfortunately, many adventures, especially the "big" kinds, are too expensive, or they threaten to t ...Show more
Getting Over Your Parents by The School of Life
Category: Mind Body Spirit
An insightful and illuminating guide on understanding the psychologicallegacy left to us by our parents. Our parents are a huge deal: whether we adore them or keep them at a distance, who we are today (what love stories we get into, our attitudes to work, our self-esteem) is crucially determined by our ...Show more
Great Thinkers School of Life (The School of Life) by The School of Life
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\School of Life Library
Typically, great thinkers have been included in encyclopedic works on the basis of reputation and historic influence. The School of Life takes a different approach, focusing instead on the thinkers whose ideas are the most helpful to our lives now. This is a collection of sixty of the most important and ...Show more
Happy, Healthy Minds (The School of Life) by The School of Life
Category: Pregnancy
Our minds are beautifully complicated and brilliant machines. For much of our lives, these machines run hugely efficiently with minimal maintenance. However, just like our other organs, they do require some proper attention and thought every now and then and recognising this at an early age can only he ...Show more
Heartbreak by The School The School of Life
Category: Personal Development | Series: The\School of Life Love Ser.
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 the healing. But there is also a vital role for understanding and perspective. We sometimes make our situation far worse than it needs to be through certain i ...Show more
How Modern Media Destroys Our Minds by The School of Life
Category: Health and Wellbeing
A guide to navigating modern media and staying sane in a world that does not turn off. Navigating the onslaught of media is overwhelming, to say the least. We are so used to living in a media-saturated world that we are numb to the onslaught of news, images, and posts that batter us daily. As we scrol ...Show more
How Ready Are You for Love? by The School of Life
Category: Mind Body Spirit
A guided questionnaire to help understand ourselves and our romantic relationships more clearly. Most questionnaires are happy to be a bit of fun; this one sets out to be both entertaining and, more importantly, useful - offering us nothing less than a guide to the comforting and supportive relationshi ...Show more
How To Think More About Sex by Alain De Botton, The School of Life
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimate and exciting - yet often confusing and difficult - experience that is sex.Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we think we're supposed to be feeling rarely matches up with the ...Show more
How to Be Alone by Sara Maitland, The School of Life
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
By indulging in the experience of being alone, we can be inspired to find our own rewards and ultimately lead richer, fuller lives.Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is so often considered anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal fr ...Show more
How to Find Love by The School of Life
Category: Personal Development | Series: Essay Bks.
Choosing a partner is one of the most consequential and tricky decisions we will ever make. The cost of repeated failure is immense. And yet we are often so alone with the search. Partners used to be found for us by parents and society. Now we are expected to follow our feelings - and so locate people b ...Show more
How to Find the Right Words (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
Category: Humour
Life constantly requires us to give other people some hugely awkward messages: that we don't love them anymore; that we do love them (though we're not meant to); that they smell a bit; that they're fired; that we're furious with them (though we adore them) or that their music is too loud...Often, out of ...Show more
How to Get Married (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
Category: Pregnancy
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 the big day. Perhaps the old ceremonies place too much emphasis on theology or else seem out of step with some of the complex realities of contemporary relati ...Show more