How to Have More Fulfilling Free Time
We spend so much of our lives at work, we are often exhausted and out of ideas when it comes to our free time. At the School of Life, we believe in learning how to make the best possible use of the time we have to ourselves - and offer a range of products and services to ensure that we get the most out of a range of leisure pursuits like travel, reading, culture and nature.
Appreciation
Having a good time doesn’t mean primarily spending a lot of money or chasing exotic pleasures. It means learning how to open our eyes.
Book: How to Travel
Shop NowBook: How to Travel
This is the guide: not to any one destination but to travel in general. In a succession of genial essays, we become students of an unexpected but vital topic: how to understand and more fully enjoy (what should be) some of the finest experiences of our lives. Included amongst these are a number of quizzes and practical exercises to help us reflect on what we have learnt.
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Book: Small Pleasures
Shop NowBook: Small Pleasures
This is a book to guide us to the best of life's small pleasures: everything from the distinctive delight of holding a child's hand to the enjoyment of disagreeing with someone, to the joy of the evening sky; an intriguing, evocative mix of small pleasures that will heighten our senses and return us to the world with new-found excitement and enthusiasm.
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Card Set: Gratitude
Shop NowCard Set: Gratitude
This pack of cards is designed to help us pause in our striving and, for a few moments, take on board some of what we have to be grateful for - a consoling, inspiring corrective to the lessons in cynicism and sourness that the world teaches every day.
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Culture
One of the most fulfilling of all leisure activities is to interact with culture (literature, philosophy, art etc.). The School of Life is committed to introducing us to the treasures of culture.
Great Thinkers
Shop NowGreat Thinkers
Our bestselling book brings together 60 of the best ideas of our time, unlocking how we can draw on ancient wisdom to improve our modern lives.
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Big Ideas for Curious Minds
Shop NowBig Ideas for Curious Minds
Big Ideas for Curious Minds is designed to harness children’s spontaneous philosophical instinct and to develop it through introductions to some of the most vibrant and essential philosophical ideas from history. The book takes us to meet leading figures of philosophy from around the world and from all eras – and shows us how their ideas continue to matter.
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Book: What is Culture For?
Shop NowBook: What is Culture For?
This book connects a range of cultural masterpieces with our own dilemmas and pains around love, work and society, and invites us to see culture as a resource with which to address the complex agonies of being human. It provides us with enduring keys to unlocking culture as a way of transforming our lives.
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Cards: Untranslatable Words
Shop NowCards: Untranslatable Words
We’re hugely dependent on language to express how we really feel, and yet words often feel curiously vague or frustratingly inaccurate. This set of cards explain the meanings behind untranslatable words from around the world to help us develop a more comprehensive vocabulary.
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Try Bibliotherapy
Learn MoreTry Bibliotherapy
In a consultation with one of our bibliotherapists, you'll explore your relationship with books so far and your unique readerly identity will be sketched. You will be guided to books that can put their finger on feelings that you may often have had but perhaps never understood so clearly before; books that open new perspectives and re-enchant the world for you.
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