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Aspects of Love

Reflections on the art of loving

by The School of Life ...

Series Book 6 - Pocket Library
Love promises happiness — yet so often delivers anxiety, confusion and pain. Aspects of Love explores why this is not a personal failure, but an inevitable part of loving in a complex world.In a series of illuminating and deeply relatable essays, this book examines the forces that shape our romantic lives, from desire and intimacy to ambivalence, attachment, compassion and friendship. Drawing on ... Read more

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Love promises happiness — yet so often delivers anxiety, confusion and pain. Aspects of Love explores why this is not a personal failure, but an inevitable part of loving in a complex world.In a series of illuminating and deeply relatable essays, this book examines the forces that shape our romantic lives, from desire and intimacy to ambivalence, attachment, compassion and friendship. Drawing on
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How to Find Love

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

Series series Pocket Library
A practical guide to making wiser, more informed choices in love.Finding and choosing a partner is one of the most consequential decisions we will ever make. This guide explains everything from why we have "types" and how our early lives inform our romantic decisions as adults. It sheds light on harmful and repetitive patterns and provides insight on how to break them.Drawing on in-depth analysis, ... Read more

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A practical guide to making wiser, more informed choices in love.Finding and choosing a partner is one of the most consequential decisions we will ever make. This guide explains everything from why we have "types" and how our early lives inform our romantic decisions as adults. It sheds light on harmful and repetitive patterns and provides insight on how to break them.Drawing on in-depth analysis,
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Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person

A pessimist’s guide to marriage, offering insight, practical advice, and consolation

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

Series series Pocket Library
A pessimist's guide to marriage.Anyone we might marry could be wrong for us - even just a little bit. We know that perfection is not in the cards. And yet, errors of deep-seated incompatibility in married couples seem to occur regularly.This informative (and funny) book examines the reasons why - and then suggests a new approach to marriage. The time has come to bury the Romantic intuition-based ... Read more

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A pessimist's guide to marriage.Anyone we might marry could be wrong for us - even just a little bit. We know that perfection is not in the cards. And yet, errors of deep-seated incompatibility in married couples seem to occur regularly.This informative (and funny) book examines the reasons why - and then suggests a new approach to marriage. The time has come to bury the Romantic intuition-based
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Why We Hate Cheap Things

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

Series series Pocket Library
How to rethink your consumer habits and feel richer at heart.Our society encourages us to equate expense with value. The more expensive something is, the more we're encouraged to covet it. Yet as its market price falls, our interest and passion tend to fade.This recurrent pattern, The School of Life argues, is a cultural misfortune. We need to rethink our patterns of consumption. Why We Hate Cheap ... Read more

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How to rethink your consumer habits and feel richer at heart.Our society encourages us to equate expense with value. The more expensive something is, the more we're encouraged to covet it. Yet as its market price falls, our interest and passion tend to fade.This recurrent pattern, The School of Life argues, is a cultural misfortune. We need to rethink our patterns of consumption. Why We Hate Cheap
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Self-Knowledge

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

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A practical guide to knowing yourself.Socrates summed up all philosophical commandments with one directive: "Know yourself." Self-knowledge informs not only our identity, but how we make decisions in life, work, and love. Society has no shortage of people and organizations offering to guide us to distant places, but very few will help us with the far more important task of traveling around the ... Read more

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A practical guide to knowing yourself.Socrates summed up all philosophical commandments with one directive: "Know yourself." Self-knowledge informs not only our identity, but how we make decisions in life, work, and love. Society has no shortage of people and organizations offering to guide us to distant places, but very few will help us with the far more important task of traveling around the
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On Self-Hatred

Learning to like oneself

by The School of Life ...

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A guide to emotional healing and living a more self-accepting life.Behind many of our problems lies an often ignored factor: we don’t like ourselves very much. We are sufferers of self-hatred. We tell ourselves the meanest things. It’s because of self-hatred that we tend to neglect our potential at work and get entangled in unfulfilling relationships, that we lack confidence in our social lives ... Read more

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On Confidence

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

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Confidence is a skill that anyone can learn.Despite the confidence we build over time in our field of work, we tend to overlook the primordial need for a more free ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us in the course of our everyday lives: speaking to strangers at parties, asking someone to marry us, asking someone on the train to turn down their music, changing the world.This is a ... Read more

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Confidence is a skill that anyone can learn.Despite the confidence we build over time in our field of work, we tend to overlook the primordial need for a more free ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us in the course of our everyday lives: speaking to strangers at parties, asking someone to marry us, asking someone on the train to turn down their music, changing the world.This is a
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Charm: An Essay

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Series series What Money Can’t Buy
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7 Steps to Becoming an Impressive Communicator

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'7 Steps to Becoming an Impressive Communicator'I truly believe that a better communication with ourselves and between individuals not only is possible but also when we do it, it can improve the quality of our lives and the decisions we make in amazing ways.Knowing who we are in ways that allow us to set boundaries and harness the power of communication with ourselves and with those we love is a ... Read more

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A Week at the Airport

A Heathrow Diary

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In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton will be invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever Writer in Residence. He will be installed in the middle of Terminal 5 on a raised platform with a laptop connected to screens, enabling passengers to see what he is writing and to come and share their stories. He will meet travellers from around the world, and will be given ... Read more

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Why Men Pull Away in Relationships

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Why do men pull away? Have you ever been in the position when your relationship is going well, you're both happy, and yet for some inexplicable reason, your man pulls away.It could be that you're thinking that he's the one, and then what? He goes swanning off to find himself, and you're left thinking what's going on. You feel confused, hurt, and not even sure if you have a relationship. You need ... Read more

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