The School of Life: An Emotional Education

Alain de Botton · The School of Life (PRH Rights)

Sep 2019 · Penguin · Narrated by Alain de Botton and Charlie Anson

4.6

16 reviews

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9 hr 26 min

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*Introduction narrated by Alain de Botton*
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

The essential guide to how to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century - from Alain de Botton, the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love

This is an audiobook about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. It's also about letting go of the myth of a perfect life in order to achieve genuine emotional maturity. Written in a hugely accessible, warm and humane style, The School of Life is the ultimate guide to the emotionally fulfilled lives we all long for - and deserve.

This audiobook brings together ten years of essential and transformative research on emotional intelligence, with practical topics including:

- how to understand yourself
- how to master the dilemmas of relationships
- how to become more effective at work
- how to endure failure
- how to grow more serene and resilient

'What he has managed to do is remarkable: to help us think better so that we may live better lives' Irish Times

'A serious and optimistic set of practical ideas that could improve and alter the way we live' Jeanette Winterson, The Times

'Alain de Botton likes to take big, complex subjects and write about them with thoughtful and deceptive innocence' Observer

© Alain de Botton 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019

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4.6

16 reviews

aygun Far

March 31, 2023

This book is just amazing! I am such a big fan of the author and so happy that I heard this book. I believe it gives you practical and reasonable solutions to your problems that might seem as unsolvable. It remarkably acknowledges the unconscious mind's games and issues that are hard to define and articulate; and bring them up and explain them to you. It's like you will have many "Aha" moments with this book. Or there are times that you really know there is something wrong going on with you or situations but you don't know how to address it and explain it to others. This book definitely helps you with identifying them. You can for example show the chapter to your partner and say see that's our issue! see that is what I am talking about! that's how I feel when you do that and so on.. . This book gives you a new perspective on life. I personally enjoyed the *relationship chapter* most. If you are a person with a receptive mind and heart, this book is your mentor and life teacher.

Angus Davidson

June 23, 2021

I tried listening to this audiobook after getting hearong about it from someone that was reading it. After multiple attempts I gave up after a couple of hours because I just simply did not find it interesting.

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