Alain de Botton

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A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life

A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life

Alain de Botton's redemptive volume charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compassion and wisdom.“Alain de Botton, one of our era’s most uncommonly perceptive, lyrical, and lucid existential contemplatives.” — The MarginalianA...

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...

The School of Life: An Emotional Education

The School of Life: An Emotional Education

How to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century-an introduction to the modern art of emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence affects every aspect of the way we live, from romantic to professional relationships, from our inner resilience...