Collected Essays

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