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- Breaking Up Heartbreak - The School of Life
At the core of heartbreak lies a particularly cruel belief: the belief in our departed lover’s profound uniqueness In the…
- Why You Don’t Need a Very Bad Childhood to Have a Complicated . . .
But there is another haunting possibility: maybe the challenges we wrestle with are indeed – to a large extent – explicable with reference to our childhoods, it’s just that we need to rethink what a ‘difficult’ childhood might involve; maybe not much needs to happen for certain powerfully consequential forces to be set in motion
- Why Anger Has a Place in Love - The School of Life
It’s natural to imagine that the highest virtue in love would be kindness and, a close second, politeness But there is an odd danger lurking here: a relationship where we are overly polite, where there is not enough directness, where things go wrong not because of a lack of tenderness or serenity but because of a stifling excess of manners, because there aren’t enough raised voices
- What Is Wrong with Modern Times – and How to Regain Wisdom
We publish articles around emotional education: calm, fulfilment, perspective and self-awareness | What Is Wrong with Modern Times - and How to Regain Wisdom — Read now
- Why It Should Not Have to Last Forever… - The School of Life
There are couples who will part after twenty years of intimacy, richness and adventure and will be greeted by those they inform as if they had fallen victim to a murder or a botched surgical operation
- Psychotherapy - The School of Life
‘I’m fine, thank you and how are you?’: an innocuous, ubiquitous sentence in which so much of the tragedy and…
- The Art of Listening - The School of Life
The Editor: Gordon Lish The Writer: Raymond Carver Lish heavily edited Carver – or, as we might put it, listened to him in a hugely creative and transformative way; a way that can teach us about the art of listening in ordinary life as well
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