The Psychology of Cross-Dressing - The School of Life
WEBFrom this perspective, cross-dressing seems like an admission of failure. Instead of living up to an ideal of strength, ruggedness and sheer ‘normality’, a man keen to slip on a dress is taken to be a deviant of a particularly alarming sort. But in truth, cross-dressing is grounded in a highly logical and universal desire: the wish to be ...
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WEBBOOKS, GAMES, TOOLS. For any corporate order enquiries of over 30 units, please contact [email protected] for a quote. We offer fast shipping and a corporate discount.
The School of Life | Your Path to Mental Wellbeing
WEBThe bedrock of personal growth lies in a chance to enter into a dialogue with a kind, insightful and highly experienced psychotherapist. The School of Life is holding a series of 4-day retreats designed to help you heal from emotional challenges in an atmosphere of friendship, learning and discovery. Our group therapy sessions run online every ...
Know Yourself — Socrates and How to Develop Self-Knowledge
WEBIn Ancient Greece, the philosopher Socrates famously declared that the unexamined life was not worth living. Asked to sum up what all philosophical commandments could be reduced to, he replied: ‘ Know yourself.’. Knowing yourself has extraordinary prestige in our culture. It has been framed as quite literally the meaning of life.
100 Questions Game - The School of Life
WEB1. Announce to your friends that you have a curious new exercise to propose. Laugh a little at the expense of these cards to ease any awkwardness. 2. Pick a card from anywhere in the box and ask your companions to address the question on it with sincerity and thoughtfulness. 3. Take calculated risks at self-revelation.
Faculty - The School of Life
WEBTim Dean. Tim Dean is a freelance philosopher and award-winning writer, teacher, speaker and facilitator. He is an Honorary Associate. Find out a little bit more about the various members that make up The School of Life faculty.
An Emotional Education - Hardback Book | The School of Life
WEBFrom the reigning master of popular philosophy, The School of Life: An Emotional Education is an essential look at the skill set that defines our modern lives. Paperback | 215 x 133 mm | 336 pages | 32 Illustrations. How to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century—an introduction to the modern art of emotional intelligence.
La Rochefoucauld - The School of Life
WEBLa Rochefoucauld. There’s a belief that philosophy, when properly done, should sound dense, forbidding, a little confusing, as if it might have been awkwardly translated from the German. But at the dawn of the modern age lived a French philosopher who trusted in a very different way of presenting his thoughts, a man who wrote a very slim book ...
Wu Wei – Doing Nothing 無爲 - The School of Life
WEBWu wei means – in Chinese – non-doing or ‘doing nothing’. It sounds like a pleasant invitation to relax or worse, fall into laziness or apathy. Yet this concept is key to the noblest kind of action according to the philosophy of Daoism – and is at the heart of what it means to follow Dao or The Way. According to the central text of ...
Art Against Despair - Hardback Book - The School of Life
WEBWe’re invited to look at art with unusual depth and then find our way towards new hope and courage. This is a portable museum dedicated to beauty and consolation, a unique book about art which is also about psychology and healing: a true piece of art therapy. Hardback book with 98 images throughout | 246 x 180 mm | 208 pages.