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How to Choose the Perfect Gift
Around this time of year – and, at points, all the year round – we are obliged to purchase gifts…
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How to Choose a Gift with The School of Life
There’s nothing wrong with functional or pleasurable gifts: there is a role for socks or biscuits in a good life. But at The School of Life, we’re in the business of creating gifts that target our true needs – and help us to build the more fulfilling kinds of existence that we all long for and deserve.
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Articles to Get You Through the Season
The School of Life aims to be a place of refuge for anyone who’s ever felt overlooked, overwhelmed, and out of sorts during the festive season.
Relationships
The Importance of Being Single
One of the most important preconditions of a good relationship is a satisfactory perspective on being single. The more we…
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Is the Modern World Too ‘Materialistic’?
It’s often said that the problem with modern societies is that they are far too ‘materialistic’ – which is taken…
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Sociability
What to Do at Parties If You Hate Small Talk
A lot of discomfort about going to social engagements is rooted in what can sound like a rather high-minded concern:…
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Self-Knowledge
Why You May Be Experiencing a Mental Midwinter
Every year, nature quietly takes us through a moral lesson that has much to teach us about how we might…
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Work
Why Advertising Is so Annoying – but Doesn’t Have to Be
Advertising has made a very bad name for itself. We don’t trust it or want much of it around so…
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