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The School of Life

A practical guide to being nice.

Much of today's media tells us to be thinner, richer, and more successful. This book tells us how to be nicer. Niceness may not have the immediate allure of money or fame, but we can all benefit from practical advice on how to be more patient, better at listening, less irritable, and less defensive.

This is a guidebook to the uncharted landscape of niceness, gently exploring the key themes of this often overlooked quality. We learn how to be charitable, how to forgive, how to be natural, and how to reassure. We learn that, rather than indicating naivety, kindness and empathy are in fact unique strengths-and deserve to be rediscovered as the greatest of all human achievements.

Rachel Lanning

The School of Life Library

On Being Nice

A practical guide to finding fulfilling work - by understanding yourself.
The idea that work might be fulfilling rather than just necessary is a recent invention. These days, in prosperous areas of the world, we don't only expect to get paid, we also expect to find meaning and satisfaction. It's a big ask and explains why so many people have an identity crisis in their work lives.
A Job To Love is designed to help us better understand ourselves in order to find a job that is right for us. It explores the myths, traps and confusions that get in our way, and shows us how to develop new, effective attitudes and habits. 
With compassion and practicality, this book guides us to discover our true talents and to make sense of our confusion, desires, and aspirations - before it is too late.

A Job to Love

"... A book reminding us of all the small moments we overlook when they happen."- Emma Gannon, Ctr Alt Delete podcast

52 overlooked small pleasures, from flirtation and figs to cyprus trees and the pleasant exhaustion that follows an especially productive day.

We exhaust ourselves and the planet in the search for very large pleasures, while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which-if we only pay more attention-can bring us solace and joy on a daily basis. This is a guidebook to life's small pleasures: everything from the distinct delight of holding a child's hand to the joy of watching the evening sky. It's an intriguing, evocative collection that will heighten our senses and return us to the world with newfound excitement and enthusiasm.

Small Pleasures

A NEW APPROACH TO MINDFULNESS: • from The School of Life.
AN ENCOURAGING GUIDE TO MANAGING OUR EMOTIONSPRACTICAL LIFE SKILLS: • for how to find-and remain-calm.
PART OF THE SCHOOL OF LIFE LIBRARY SERIES: • other titles include 
Small Pleasures • , 
Relationships • , and 
Great Thinkers.

Calm

A fresh approach to matters of the heart, teaching us that success in love need never again be just a matter of luck. 
Love has a history and we ride—sometimes rather helplessly—on its currents. Since around 1750, we have been living in a highly distinctive era in the history of love that we can call Romanticism. And it has been a disaster for love. 

Relationships challenges the assumptions of the Romantic view of love. It shows how to develop new attitudes that can lead to a psychologically mature vision of love: 

 • That it is OK that love and sex may not always belong together 
 • That discussing money early on, in a serious way, is not a betrayal of love 
 • That realizing that we are rather flawed, and our partner is too, is of huge benefit to a couple 
 • That we will never find everything we need in another person, nor they in us 
 • That spending two hours discussing whether bathroom towels should be hung up or can be left on the floor has its own dignity
 
Full of applied real-life examples, and enlivened throughout with humor and cultural anecdote, this innovative guide paves the way to a new, brighter future for love.

Fiona Buckland

Relationships

A REFERENCE BOOK OF 60 GREAT THINKERS: • and their most useful ideas.
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE CANON: • a gallery of individuals from across the millennia who have shaped the intellectual project of The School of Life.
ORIGINAL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS BY STUART PATIENCETHE ULTIMATE RESOURCE: • for those seeking both answers and inspiration.
PREMIUM GIFT FORMAT: • shrink-wrapped with ribbon marker and belly band.

Great Thinkers: Simple tools from sixty great thinkers to improve your life today

FIND A CAREER YOU LOVE • a guide to finding fulfilling work through self-exploration. 
PRACTICAL EXAMPLES AND EXERCISES • to inspire fresh thinking about our jobs and ourselves. 
BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED • gift format with ribbon marker.

A Job to Love: A practical guide to finding fulfilling work by better understanding yourself

HOW TO THINK ABOUT SEX • an open-minded exploration.
REFRESHING & EXPLICIT • a liberating deep dive into a subject often entrenched in taboo.
EMPOWERS ADULTS TO REFRAME • tired definitions of sexuality.
A PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH • to understanding our own desires.

Sex: An open approach to our unspoken desires

RECONSIDERS NICENESS • as a powerful and effective quality.
A PRACTICAL GUIDE • to practicing kindness and empathy in a chaotic world.
ENCOURAGING AND OPTIMISTIC • designed to resonate with everyone.
SERIES EDITED BY ALAIN DE BOTTON, • founder of The School of Life.