A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life’s most popular and essential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture.
Over the past 15 years, The School of Life has produced landmark essays on key topics, to help foster calm, self-knowledge and emotional maturity. Collected Essays stylishly gathers these for the first time, bringing together some of our bestselling essays. Among these you will find:
- On Confidence: a guide to throwing off inhibition and shame in the name of a more free and creative life
- Self-Knowledge: a method for knowing ourselves better in order to make optimal choices in love and work
- Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person: a paradoxically hopeful and wry survey of the trials and joys of marriage
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 more prepared to greet life's inevitable challenges. The book amounts to nothing less than a concise compendium of some of the wisest things we’ll ever need to know.
Essays from this series available as audiobooks:
Self-Knowledge
On Confidence
