Self-Knowledge

At The School of Life, we believe that the path to a more fulfilling life always starts with self-knowledge. It is only on the basis of an accurate sense of who we really are that we can start to make reliable decisions around love, work, friendship and our personal goals. Armed with the right-sort of self-knowledge, we can avoid errors of judgement, learn how to better relate to others – and discover the life we were truly meant to lead.

Tools for Self-Knowledge

From recovering your forgotten past to deciding on your ideal future, we offer a wide range of tools to help you traverse the hidden byways of your psyche.

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Reasons to be Hopeful

An honest and accessible guide to finding light in the darkest of times. In a world that isn’t short of darkness, there can be few more urgent priorities…
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On Mental Illness

A compassionate and hopeful guide to achieving emotional wellbeing. We accept without shame that most organs in our bodies might at some point develop problems – and could…
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On Self-Hatred

A guide to emotional healing and living a more self-accepting life. Behind many of our problems lies an often ignored factor: we don’t like ourselves very much. We…
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Who Am I?

A guided journal with psychological exercises to develop self-understanding.  One of the trickiest tasks we ever face is that of working out who we really are. If we’re…
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Therapeutic Services

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy offers you a chance to spend concentrated time on yourself with a highly skilled practitioner who can help you unpack your story, get to the root of issues and give you new clarity on your past and your present.

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Articles on Self-Knowledge

The Roots of Paranoia

Self-Knowledge

The Roots of Paranoia

One of the most useful realisations we might come to about ourselves is that we are ‘paranoid.’ The word is…
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Am I Too Clever?

Self-Knowledge

Am I Too Clever?

It is hard to imagine that there could be any such thing as excessive intelligence. After all, most of the problems…
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Introducing the new The School of Life App

Get all of The School of Life’s Self-Knowledge content, and much more, in your pocket by downloading now.

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Self Knowledge in the app

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Our forgotten childhood

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Markers of emotional health

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Why our best thoughts come in the shower