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How to Make a Country Wealthy
If you were setting out to make a country rich, what kind of mindsets and ideas would be most likely to achieve your goals? We invent a country, Rich…
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LITERATURE - Jane Austen
Jane Austen’s novels are so readable in part because she wasn’t an ordinary kind of novelist: she wanted her work to help us to be better and wiser p…
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Movement for Intellectuals
All too often nowadays, people who love to exercise their brains forget to exercise their bodies. This wasn’t the way of the Ancient Greeks, who beli…
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How to Process Negative Emotions: Daily Proven Techniques
An unexpected and troublesome feature of being human is that we feel so much more than we spontaneously realise we feel. There are emotions coursing …
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How to Locate Work That Matters
Contrary to some expectations, it isn’t only money we want from work. We also need our work to feel ‘meaningful’. But what exactly is meaningful work…
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LITERATURE - James Baldwin
James Baldwin was a great African-American writer who understood the meaning of freedom. His work and life give us a guide to how to escape our narro…
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What Is Emotional Neglect? And How to Cope
Emotional neglect - the withholding of parental love during childhood - can have a psychological impact no less profound than other forms of abuse. B…
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In Praise of Thoughtful People
Emotional Intelligence, Daily. Start now: https://www.theschooloflife.com/subscription/ Why do we overlook the very people who treat us best? This f…
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The Impact of Dishonesty to Transform Your Love Life
Relationships suffer from a fundamental tension between the desire to be honest and the fear of being abandoned. We go into relationships in order to…
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PHILOSOPHY - Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer was deeply influenced by Buddhist thought and is in many ways the West’s answer to it: he too tells us to reign in our desires an…
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