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This is an audiobook about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. It's also about letting go of the myth of a perfect life in order to achieve genuine emotional maturity. Written in a hugely accessible, warm and humane style, The School of Life is the ultimate guide to the emotionally fulfilled lives we all long for - and deserve.

Here, Alain de Botton follows the arc of a mental health journey, from crisis to recuperation; the moments we realize we cannot cope; the acts of selfcare or therapy in which we find respite; and the days we finally reclaim a sense of stability. Written with understanding and kindness, it is both a source of companionship in our loneliest moments - whether it's a relationship breakdown, a career setback or anxiety around the everyday - and a practical guide that will help us find reasons for hope.

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.

For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of In Search of Lost Time (while bedridden no less), Alain de Botton has the answer. For, in this stylish, erudite and frequently hilarious book, de Botton dips deeply into Proust’s life and work - his fiction, letter, and conversations – and distils from them that rare self-help manual: one that is actually helpful.

Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so.

How to Get Out of This World Alive is an unique synthesis of psychology, philosophy, mysticism, and metaphysics. It provides practical tools for the listener who wants to be truly alive at all levels. Techniques developed and tested over 30 years are clearly set out to help you shift from making losing choices to winning ones.

We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer - to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassment - from status anxiety. For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to his universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions. He looks at history, philosophy, economics, art, and politics - and reveals the many ingenious ways that great minds have overcome their worries. The result is a book that is not only entertaining and thought-provoking - but genuinely wise and helpful as well.

Dive into a world where your personality becomes the mirror of legendary characters. Which Fairy Tale Character Are You? is not just a book; it's an intimate adventure at the heart of your being. Imagine wandering through the mystical forests of your mind, discovering whether your essence resonates with the wisdom of an old sage or the vivacity of a fearless hero. This journey is not yours alone. It offers a prism through which to see your friends, your family, revealing how, together, you form a rich and complex tapestry of living archetypes.

Too Big To Fail è un podcast di finanza personale pressapochista, lazzarone, disordinato, pigro ed anche un po' antipatico.Proprio come te.Parliamo di soldi, come farli (in teoria), come spenderli (in pratica) e come risparmiarli ed investirli quando le mucche sono grasse e le cavallette son state uccise dal DDT.Parliamo (senza dare consigli finanziari, sia mai che ci arrestano) di come investire i tuoi soldi. E di come investiamo i nostri.Parliamo di carriera, d'imprenditoria, di politica solo quando ci scappa, di religione praticamente mai. Di sesso parliamo di rado ma ci pensiamo spesso, ...

Selbstwert stärken, Potenzial entfalten, Freiheit leben – Dein Weg zu einem befreiten und erfüllten Leben In einer Welt, die von Perfektionismus und gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen geprägt ist, verlieren viele Menschen den Kontakt zu sich selbst. Sie fühlen sich gefangen in ihren Ängsten, Blockaden und Unsicherheiten, ohne den Weg heraus zu finden. Dieses Hörbuch ist ein Wegweiser für all jene, die sich nach einem selbst bestimmten, freien und erfüllten Leben sehnen. Der Autor Alain Maire kennt die dunklen Seiten des Lebens nur zu gut.

View your sex life in a different light and learn how it can make you happier. Sex is the most intimately human experience there is. It is can also be the most confusing. Our desire to be together conflicts with our desire to avoid vulnerability and appear ‘normal’, leaving us detached, desensitised or embarrassed. Covering topics including adultery, lust, pornography and impotence, Alain de Botton argues that 21st century sex will always be a balancing act of trust versus risk, and of primal desire versus studied civility.

Algunas personas nunca parecen heridas por la desgracia. Están volviendo, pero se levantan y miran resueltamente hacia el futuro. ¿Quiénes son estas aves raras? Y, sobre todo, ¿cómo hacer como ellos?

Every day, plants face the same fate: to bloom or to wither. Their lives can be summed up as follows: if the elements are favorable to them, they have water in quantity and the sun allows them to swell with energy, letting them grow and prepare to bloom so that they can reproduce. If the elements are less favorable to them, they fade quietly until they die. They therefore hope that tomorrow will be a good day.

Aimeriez-vous mieux interagir avec votre patron, vos collègues, vos employés, vos amis, votre conjoint et même le commis du dépanneur? C'est possible!

Déterminé à contrer tous les ennemis et à améliorer la vie d’autrui? Eh bien, que vous le croyiez ou non, ce livre vous démontrera que vous pouvez aspirer au même statut. Vous pouvez, dans votre vie, devenir un super-héros.

There are different kinds of difficult people, and what you'll learn first in this audiobook is to recognize them for who they are. You won't be able to cure them, they would have to go into therapy most of the time to become better versions of themselves. But you'll also find your weapons to overcome the obstacles these aggressive, negative, or just silent people erect on your path. Working in stages to assess the situation and the profile of the difficult people you face, you'll be able to shield yourself and turn their shortcomings into an opportunity for both of you.

Chaque jour, vous devez négocier. Que se passera-t-il demain ? Allez-vous gagner ou perdre ? Si vous souhaitez augmenter vos chances de gagner, donnez-vous une longueur d’avance et écoutez ce livre. Que vous vouliez influencer un client, un fournisseur, un enfant, un employé ou votre conjoint, vous trouverez dans cet ouvrage des réponses aux questions que vous vous posez depuis longtemps. Voici enfin regroupées dans un volume intéressant, facile à comprendre et rempli de trucs, les bases du succès interpersonnel. Vous aurez à négocier demain... Êtes-vous prêt ?

Manche Menschen scheinen nie von ihrem Unglück erdrückt zu sein. Nach einem großen Misserfolg oder dem Verlust eines Arbeitsplatzes oder geliebten Menschen heben sie sich einfach selbst auf und wenden sich entschlossen der Zukunft zu. Es gibt ein Wort für die Qualität, die diejenigen, die überleben und sich erholen, von denen unterscheidet, die aufgeben: Resilienz. In diesem Buch stellt uns der Autor die 10 Schlüssel zur Widerstandsfähigkeit vor und verwendet Dutzende von Beispielen aus dem wirklichen Leben, um zu zeigen, wie auch wir die Gewohnheiten lernen können.

Ce qui importe, c’est que vous vous remettiez au diapason de votre vie. Vous n’avez pas à y jouer les figurants ou les faire-valoir. Vous devez reprendre le rôle qui vous est destiné : celui du héros qui fera que votre vie aura valu la peine d’être vécue. Pour cela, vous devrez, tout au long de ces pages, vous inspirer de ces merveilles que sont les plantes qui nous entourent.

Certaines personnes ne semblent jamais meurtries par le malheur. Elles écopent, mais se relèvent et se tournent résolument vers l’avenir. Qui sont ces oiseaux rares? Et surtout, comment faire comme eux? Les scienti ques les ont examinés sous toutes les coutures. Leurs conclusions sont étonnantes : les individus les plus solides ne sont pas spéciaux. Ils ne possèdent pas un gène particulier. Ils ne sont pas plus intelligents que les autres.