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Why We Love Our Bears
We gathered at The School of Life to discuss something unusual: our teddy bears. A group of us, all of…
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How Emotionally Mature are You?
Discover your true emotional age beyond mere years in our new book. This compassionate guide helps you understand your psychological maturity, exploring how childhood experiences, self-love, and personal challenges shape your emotional growth. Uncover the path to becoming a confident, self-aware, and emotionally intelligent adult.
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How to Steal a Very Expensive House
There’s a common assumption that the only way to own a beautiful house, or car or piece of clothing is…
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The Consolations of Deep Time
Thinking about the age of the earth is – unexpectedly perhaps – among the more consoling and calming of all…
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A Simple Exercise to Help Us Find Direction
It can be hard to know what to do next in relation to many challenges we face. Maybe we’ve left…
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How Wounded People Seek Out Further Punishment
There’s a bitter paradox that awaits many of us who have suffered from harsh, unloving childhoods: we have an above-average chance…
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When Evil Walks Into Our Lives…
One of our basic beliefs is that the people we come across will not, fundamentally, be bad or malevolent. We…
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