How to Survive the Modern World
Making Sense of, and Finding Calm in, Unsteady Times
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The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine and transport. But it can also feel as though modern times have plunged us ever deeper into greed, despair and agitation.
Seldom has the world felt more privileged and resource-rich yet also worried, blinkered, furious, panicked and self-absorbed.
How to Survive the Modern World is the ultimate guide to navigating our unusual times. It identifies a range of themes that present acute challenges to our mental wellbeing. The book tackles our relationship to the news media, our ideas of love and sex, our assumptions about money and our careers, our attitudes to animals and the natural world, our admiration for science and technology, our belief in individualism and secularism–and our suspicion of quiet and solitude.
In all cases, the book helps us to understand how we got to where we are, digging deeply and fascinatingly into the history of ideas, while pointing us towards a saner individual and collective future. The emphasis isn’t just on understanding modern times, but also on knowing how we can best relate to the difficulties these present. The book helps us to form a calmer, more authentic, more resilient and sometimes more light-hearted relationship to the follies and obsessions of our age. If modern times are (in part) something of a disease, this is both the diagnostic and the soothing, hope-filled cure.
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Emotional intelligence affects every aspect of the way we live, from romantic to professional relationships, from our inner resilience to our social success. It is arguably the single most important skill for surviving the twenty-first century. But what does it really mean? One decade ago, Alain de Botton founded The School of Life, an institute dedicated to understanding and improving our emotional intelligence. Now he presents the gathered wisdom of those ten years in a wide-ranging and innovative compendium of emotional intelligence that forms an introduction to The School of Life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The school of life needs to be in schools.
- De Angela pope en 02-03-23
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A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Charlie Anson
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 39
A Therapeutic Journey follows the arc from mental crisis and collapse, to convalescence and recovery. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is both a practical guide and a source of consolation and companionship in what might be some of our loneliest, most anguished moments.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deep, intelligent, compassionate
- De Terri Myers en 12-23-23
De: Alain de Botton
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Small Pleasures
- De: The School of Life
- Narrado por: Rachel Lanning
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
We exhaust ourselves and the planet in the search for very large pleasures, while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which—if we only pay more attention—can bring us solace and joy on a daily basis. This is a guidebook to life's small pleasures: everything from the distinct delight of holding a child's hand to the joy of watching the evening sky. It's an intriguing, evocative collection that will heighten our senses and return us to the world with newfound excitement and enthusiasm.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An underrated treasure
- De Anonymous User en 08-12-23
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A Simpler Life
- A Guide to Greater Serenity, Ease and Clarity
- De: The School of Life
- Narrado por: Rachel Lanning
- Duración: 3 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
The modern world can be a complicated, frenzied, and noisy place, filled with too many options, products, ideas and opinions. That explains why what many of us long for is simplicity: a life that can be more pared down, peaceful, and focused on the essentials. But finding simplicity is not always easy; it isn’t just a case of emptying out our closets or trimming back commitments in our diaries. True simplicity requires that we understand the roots of our distractions – and develop a canny respect for the stubborn reasons why things can grow complex and overwhelming.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bite-size practical tips for a better life
- De Tonya Kubo en 02-12-22
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The Good Enough Parent
- How to Raise Contented, Interesting, and Resilient Children
- De: The School of Life
- Narrado por: Sonya Cullingford
- Duración: 3 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Bringing up a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life’s great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of life lessons, including how to say ‘no’ to a child you adore, how to look beneath the surface of ‘bad’ behavior to work out what might really be going on, how to encourage a child to be genuinely kind, and how to handle the moods and gloom of adolescence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All parents should read this!
- De Sarah Grace Holland Begashaw en 08-05-24
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Stay or Leave
- How to Remain In, or End, Your Relationship
- De: The School of Life
- Narrado por: Rachel Lanning
- Duración: 3 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
A book to offer clarity and guidance when facing the difficult decision of whether your relationship has a future. Whether we should stay in or leave a relationship is one of the most consequential and painful decisions we are ever likely to confront.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book, hate the narrator
- De Birta Flokadottir en 08-25-24
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On Confidence
- De: The School of Life, Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Alain de Botton
- Duración: 1 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
We spend vast amounts of time acquiring confidence in narrow technical fields: quadratic equations or bioengineering; economics or pole vaulting. But we overlook the primordial need to acquire a more free-ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us across a range of tasks: speaking to strangers at parties, asking someone to marry us, suggesting a fellow passenger turn down their music, changing the world. This is a guidebook to confidence, why we lack it and how we can acquire more of it in our lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Poignant and timeless
- De Graceny Jimenez en 08-15-20
De: The School of Life, y otros
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How to Think More Effectively
- A Guide to Greater Productivity, Insight, and Creativity
- De: The School of Life
- Narrado por: Sonya Cullingford
- Duración: 2 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
We know that our minds are capable of great things because, every now and then, they come out with a brilliant idea or two. However, our minds are also unpredictable, spending large stretches of time idling or distracting themselves. This is a book about how to optimize these beautiful yet fitful instruments so that they can more regularly and generously produce the sort of insights and ideas we need to fulfill our potential and achieve the contentment we deserve.
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Self-Knowledge
- De: The School of Life
- Narrado por: Fiona Buckland
- Duración: 1 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
In Ancient Greece, when the philosopher Socrates was asked to sum up what all philosophical commandments could be reduced to, he replied: "Know yourself". Self-knowledge matters so much because it is only on the basis of an accurate sense of who we are that we can make reliable decisions - particularly around love and work. This book takes us on a journey into our deepest, most elusive selves and arms us with a set of tools to understand our characters properly.
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1 out of 5 stars
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terrible voice
- De Tina Crosby en 08-27-20
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The Architecture of Happiness
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 4 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 455
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 370
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 371
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of chairs, walls, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet, a concern for architecture is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. Alain de Botton starts from the idea that where we are heavily influences who we can be, and argues that it is architecture's task to stand as an eloquent reminder of our full potential.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Many elegant words used for a simple topic.
- De Spirit en 08-15-17
De: Alain de Botton
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- 04-08-25
school of life - yes. Narrator - no
i really like the books from school of life, but something in Rachel Lanning - the narrator- style of narrator does not afree with me. it feels robotic and unfortunately I can't listen to any of the books she narrated... I normally read them as I just can't listen..
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