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 a book 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 book 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 Praise for Alain de Botton: ´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