Key ideas from The School of Life include exploring calm, knowing how to fight off anxiety, and remaining calm. These belong to the greatest skills we can ever aspire to have. Only with a serene state of mind are we in any position to enjoy all the other good things in life: friendship, love, family or work.

Chapters include: A Quiet Life, Catastrophising, Kintsugi, Moods, Ritual, Unprocessed Emotion.