The School of Life Essential Ideas: Serenity

Key ideas from The School of Life exploring calm

Knowing how to fight off anxiety and remain calm belong to the greatest skills we can ever aspire to. Only with a serene state of mind are we in any position to enjoy all the other good things in life: friendship, love, family or work.

Here is selection of The School of Life’s finest ideas on the art of serenity. They teach us how to achieve the correct perspective on our problems, how to understand the worst of our fears and how to surround ourselves with the sort of people who can help us in our quest for a less anxious existence.

We have – most of us – already spent far too long on needless worry; here at last is a crucial guide to the less turbulent future we deserve.

Chapters include:

• A Quiet Life
• Catastrophising
• Kintsugi
• Moods
• Ritual
• Unprocessed Emotion

Paperback book | 96 pages | 157mm x 111mm