Essential Ideas: Self-Awareness

Key ideas from The School of Life exploring self-knowledge

Understanding ourselves is the key to unlocking our true potential. Here is a collection of The School of Life’s most penetrating insights into the puzzles of self-awareness. This book teaches us how to look into ourselves, how to make sense of our past and how to overcome anxiety and confusion.

In a highly compressed and entertaining form, The School of Life introduces us to a person we’ve been in flight from for too long and will benefit hugely from getting to know: our deep selves.

Chapters include:

Anxiety
Emotional Scepticism
Inner Idiot
Normality
Self-Sabotage
Triggers