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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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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Self-Knowledge
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…
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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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How to Overcome Your Childhood
A guide to understanding, and liberating ourselves from, our past. To an extraordinary and humbling extent, who we are as adults is determined by events that happened to…
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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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Self-Knowledge
Why Everything Relates to Your Childhood
In certain moods, the founding principle of modern psychotherapy — that it is all to do with one’s childhood —…
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Sociability
Loneliness as a Sign of Depth
It’s an embarrassing confession, but for a certain group among us, it’s fair to say that a great deal of…
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Self-Knowledge
The Upsides of Having a Mental Breakdown
One of the saddest and most puzzling phenomena of psychological life are the incidents commonly known as ‘breakdowns’, in which…
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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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Self Knowledge in the app
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How to overcome your childhood
Our forgotten childhood
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Gain Emotional maturity
Markers of emotional health
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How to acquire self-knowledge