On Confidence (The School Of Life)

Author: School of Life (Business Enterprise) Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)

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  • : $23.00 AUD
  • : 9780995573673
  • : The School of Life Press
  • : The School of Life
  • : March 2017
  • : 23.0
  • : October 2017
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  • : books

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  • : School of Life (Business Enterprise) Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
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Description

We spend vast amounts of time acquiring confidence in narrow technical fields: quadratic equations or bioengineering; economics or pole vaulting. But we overlook the primordial need to acquire a more free ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us across a range of tasks: speaking to strangers at parties, asking someone to marry us, suggesting a fellow passenger turn down their music, changing the world. This is a guidebook to confidence, why we lack it and how we can acquire more of it in our lives. On Confidence walks us gently and wryly around the key issues that stop us from making more of our potential.

Author description

The School of Life is dedicated to developing emotional intelligence through the help of culture - believing that a range of our most persistent problems are created by a lack of self-understanding, compassion and communication. We operate from ten physical campuses around the world, including London, Amsterdam, Seoul and Melbourne. We produce films, run classes, offer therapy and make a range of psychological products. The School of Life Press publishes books on the most important issues of cultural and emotional life. Our titles are designed to entertain, educate, console and transform.