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Essential Ideas: Serenity
About this book
The School of Life’s approach to calm - in a pocket format.
In the third of a series of pocket books, The School of Life has distilled its most essential ideas on serenity in order to produce a bitesize manual that is both useful and entertaining.  
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 essays 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- A Quiet Life
- Anger
- Animals
- Catastrophising
- Domesticity
- Early Nights
- Good Materialism
- Gratitude
- Home
- Kintsugi
- Living Consciously
- Melancholy
- Monasteries
- Moods
- Nature
- Philosophical Meditation
- Phones
- Plan B
- Premeditation
- Ritual
- Simplicity
- Small Pleasures
- Sun Worship
- The Sublime
- Unprocessed Emotion