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The School of Life

The School of Life is a British organization founded in 2008 by Alain de Botton and collaborators, dedicated to fostering emotional intelligence and personal development through psychology, philosophy, and the arts. Its notable works include books such as "The School of Life: An Emotional Education," with impact evidenced by a global presence and wide readership.

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The School of Life emerged in 2008 not as a single author but as a collaborative educational venture founded by Swiss-born British philosopher Alain de Botton alongside colleagues from the arts, education, and cultural sectors, including curator Sophie Howarth and a group of psychotherapists, artists, and educators. What began as an institute dedicated to understanding and improving emotional intelligence in London has evolved into a British multinational social media company and publishing house that addresses life's most pressing psychological and philosophical questions. The organization's creation represented a turning point in making therapeutic and philosophical wisdom accessible to a general audience, departing from academic traditions to speak directly to everyday struggles with anxiety, relationships, work, and meaning.

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The best cure for unrequited love: get to know them better
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well
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Insomnia is the mind’s revenge for all the thoughts we forgot to have in the day
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Irritability is anger that lacks self-knowledge
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Being properly mature involves a frank, unfrightened relationship with one’s own darkness, complexity and ambition
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It’s deeply poignant that we should expend so much effort on trying to look strong before the world when, all the while, it’s really only ever the revelation of the somewhat embarrassing, sad, melancholy, and anxious bits of us that renders us endearing to others and transforms strangers into friends
-The School of Life: An Emotional Education
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Being a good listener is one of the most important and enchanting life skills anyone can have
-The School of Life: An Emotional Education
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Anxiety is not a sign of sickness, a weakness of the mind, or an error for which we should always seek a medical solution. It is mostly a hugely reasonable and sensitive response to the genuine strangeness, terror, uncertainty, and riskiness of existence
-The School of Life: An Emotional Education
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We need to become better friends to ourselves
-The School of Life: An Emotional Education

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