The School of Life : calm : the harmony and serenity we crave

School of Life (Business enterprise), (issuing body.).

Summary: Calm. Few life skills are as neglected, yet as important, as the ability to remain calm. Our very decisions and interactions are almost invariably the result of a loss of calm--and a descent into anxiety and agitation. Surprisingly, but very fortunately, our power to remain calm can be rehearsed and improved. We don't have to stay where we are now: our responses to everyday challenges can dramatically alter. We can educate ourselves in the art of keeping calm not through slow breathing or special teas but through thinking. This is a book that patiently unpacks the causes of our greatest stresses and gives us a succession of highly persuasive, beautiful, and sometimes dryly comic arguments with which to defend ourselves against panic and fury"--Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 1915087147 (Paperback)
ISBN: 9781915087140 (Paperback)
Physical Description: 167 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Publisher: London : The School of Life, 2022.
Copyright: ©2016.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Relationships -- Romantic expectations -- The lack of glamour of domesticity -- The agitations of sex -- The weakness of strength -- Other people -- Unintended hurt -- In defense of teaching -- In defense of politeness -- On bureaucracy -- Work -- Capitalism -- Ambition -- Patience -- Colleagues -- The sources of calm -- Sight -- Sound -- Space -- Time -- Touch -- Conclusion: the quiet life.