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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.
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Denne boken selges som om den var skrevet av Alain de Botton, noe den helt opplagt ikke er - selv om hans måte å betrakte verden på skinner gjennom i boken. En slags lærebok i emosjonell pedagogikk, i Norge publisert av Humanistisk forlag, og fremstår som en Hallesby for humanetikere i 2020, blir dette mange fine tanker, omstendelig skrevet, på noen måter tankevekkende - men som en helhetstenkning håper jeg humanetikerne har bedre ting i ty til. Hallesbys retorikk funka dårlig på 50-tallet, den funker like dårlig i 2021.
A great introduction to the world of emotions. I am someone who leans far and heavily into a pure rational interpretation of the world, often neglecting or discounting my own and by extension the emotions of others. It's incredibly hard for me to understand why people do certain things, as well as why I feel the way that I do. This book is seeing the world through a different lens, finding out that there is a different, equally important perspective that I've been dismissing. It doesn't help too much in the way of actionable points, but definitely can serve as a lucid and compelling eye-opener for the completely uninitiated.