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# long-lasting wisdom practical emotional intelligence 10 years of research distilled The School of Life: An Emotional Education

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## Summary

> 📖 Elevate your emotional IQ — because life’s too short for outdated lessons!

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## Key Features

- • **Fail Well, Grow Stronger:** Learn how to embrace failure as a stepping stone to personal and professional growth.
- • **Career & Relationship Success:** Practical tools to enhance your work effectiveness and deepen meaningful connections.
- • **Enduring Wisdom for Real Life:** Durable guidance that stays relevant, helping you grow emotionally resilient over time.
- • **Master Emotional Intelligence:** Unlock insights from a decade of transformative research to navigate life’s complexities with confidence.
- • **Accessible Philosophy for Modern Life:** Written in a warm, engaging style that makes profound ideas easy to apply daily.

## Overview

The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton is a Sunday Times bestseller that condenses a decade of research into emotional intelligence. This accessible guide offers practical advice on understanding emotions, mastering relationships, succeeding at work, and building resilience. Highly rated and widely recommended, it’s a must-have for anyone seeking genuine emotional maturity and a more fulfilling life.

## Description

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Give the gift of inspiration: an essential guide to living wisely and well, no matter what challenges the world throws at you - f rom 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

Review: Must read for everyone - Great book, must read for everyone. Highly recommend.
Review: A book that should be a must read for every adult - I have been a fan of Alain De Botton and why not; he has been on a mission to make philosophy accessible to all, and to make philosophy a tool for living a more meaningful life. And this book is easy to read, full of insights and lots of ideas on how to be emotionally more mature. Read it, and gift it to your friends. More people read this book, the world would be a better place.

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## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #8,162 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #29 in Emotional Self Help #38 in Communication & Social Skills (Books) #60 in Self-Esteem (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 3,285 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Must read for everyone
*by R***R on 21 January 2026*

Great book, must read for everyone. Highly recommend.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A book that should be a must read for every adult
*by S***H on 2 November 2022*

I have been a fan of Alain De Botton and why not; he has been on a mission to make philosophy accessible to all, and to make philosophy a tool for living a more meaningful life. And this book is easy to read, full of insights and lots of ideas on how to be emotionally more mature. Read it, and gift it to your friends. More people read this book, the world would be a better place.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Must read.
*by R***Y on 13 April 2023*

The content and quality of writing is sublime. Alain De Botton continues to enthral with his comprehensive and succinct writing to unpack some of the most important yet deeply knotty issues that continues to elude us even today. Reading his books and every other book by the school of life feels liberating and enlightening. A must read for everybody! The print and quality of pages however should’ve been much better considering Penguin!

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- School Of Life
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- A Therapeutic Journey

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