What They Forgot to Teach You at School
by The School of Life
Essays on emotional education: how childhood shapes us, self-knowledge, the sources of anxiety and low mood, relationships and work, and the idea that emotional skills can be learned like any others. A good single-volume introduction to the School of Life's whole project.
Read it if…
you want a primer on emotional intelligence as a learnable subject.
Skip it if…
you already read widely in psychology; little will be new.
Three things you will actually use
- Emotional skills are learnable; nobody taught you.
- Self-knowledge is the foundation of every other skill.
- Anxiety has reasons; find them.
Do this first
Read the chapter on childhood and write how yours shows up in your work.
Our verdict
Emotional education, a primer.
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