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Calm

By: The School of Life
Narrated by: Rachel Lanning
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Summary

A guide to developing the art of finding serenity, not through meditation, but through understanding the sources of our anxiety and frustrations.

Few life skills are as neglected, yet as important, as the ability to remain calm. Our very worst decisions and interactions are almost invariably the result of a loss of calm - and a descent into anxiety and agitation. Surprisingly, but very fortunately, our power to remain calm can be rehearsed and improved. We don’t have to stay where we are now: our responses to everyday challenges can dramatically alter.

We can educate ourselves in the art of keeping calm not through slow breathing or special teas but through thinking. This is a book that patiently unpacks the causes of our greatest stresses and gives us a succession of highly persuasive, beautiful and sometimes dryly comic arguments with which to defend ourselves against panic and fury.

©2022 The School of Life (P)2022 The School of Life
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A lovely book.

Very well narrated. Soothing content. Thank you Rachel and the rest of the SoL team.

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