What Do I Really Want to Achieve?
It can be hard to decide what we really want to achieve in our lives; our ambitions are often scattered, diverse and difficult to pin down. The School of Life's What Do I Really Want to Achieve? is a toolkit for helping us focus on what we need to be fulfilled, so that we can direct our energies and thoughts most effectively.
The box contains 160 cards detailing our most common ambitions and longings, along with instructions on how to reflect on our goals, arrange them in a logical order of priorities and, where necessary, weigh up trade-offs. The cards can be displayed, photographed or kept close to hand as a reminder of the path ahead.
Along with the 160 cards is a booklet where you'll find six exercises, but don't feel obliged to use any of them: you might just want to arrange the cards yourself according to whatever order comes to mind.
Details
Measures 15,9 x 11,8 x 2,1 cm
Counts 160 cards + 20 page booklet
The School of Life x Misc Store Amsterdam
Alain de Botton founded The School of Life in 2008. His aim was to make philosophy — long seen as the inaccessible, inauthentic stuff of academies and archives — a functional aspect of modern life. The care with which ancient philosophers thought about their lives remains a valuable antidote to the generalised anxiety of our era.
The school thus posits that ideas of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics are as relevant to us today as they were in ancient Greece. Even if Epicurus never had social media burnout, understanding his thinking can lead us to a healthier relationship with , for example, our phones — and by extension, with one another.
We began stocking The School of Life’s series on work, gratitude and pleasure as a way of thinking through modern day issues. We admire their series for the capacity to stimulate reflection, and their ability to give a new perspective on age old problems. At its core, it is a set of strategies for finding meaning in the modern world — so that we can appreciate small pleasures and the things that might go unnoticed.
It can be hard to decide what we really want to achieve in our lives; our ambitions are often scattered, diverse and difficult to pin down. The School of Life's What Do I Really Want to Achieve? is a toolkit for helping us focus on what we need to be fulfilled, so that we can direct our energies and thoughts most effectively.
The box contains 160 cards detailing our most common ambitions and longings, along with instructions on how to reflect on our goals, arrange them in a logical order of priorities and, where necessary, weigh up trade-offs. The cards can be displayed, photographed or kept close to hand as a reminder of the path ahead.
Along with the 160 cards is a booklet where you'll find six exercises, but don't feel obliged to use any of them: you might just want to arrange the cards yourself according to whatever order comes to mind.
Details
Measures 15,9 x 11,8 x 2,1 cm
Counts 160 cards + 20 page booklet
The School of Life x Misc Store Amsterdam
Alain de Botton founded The School of Life in 2008. His aim was to make philosophy — long seen as the inaccessible, inauthentic stuff of academies and archives — a functional aspect of modern life. The care with which ancient philosophers thought about their lives remains a valuable antidote to the generalised anxiety of our era.
The school thus posits that ideas of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics are as relevant to us today as they were in ancient Greece. Even if Epicurus never had social media burnout, understanding his thinking can lead us to a healthier relationship with , for example, our phones — and by extension, with one another.
We began stocking The School of Life’s series on work, gratitude and pleasure as a way of thinking through modern day issues. We admire their series for the capacity to stimulate reflection, and their ability to give a new perspective on age old problems. At its core, it is a set of strategies for finding meaning in the modern world — so that we can appreciate small pleasures and the things that might go unnoticed.
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It can be hard to decide what we really want to achieve in our lives; our ambitions are often scattered, diverse and difficult to pin down. The School of Life's What Do I Really Want to Achieve? is a toolkit for helping us focus on what we need to be fulfilled, so that we can direct our energies and thoughts most effectively.
The box contains 160 cards detailing our most common ambitions and longings, along with instructions on how to reflect on our goals, arrange them in a logical order of priorities and, where necessary, weigh up trade-offs. The cards can be displayed, photographed or kept close to hand as a reminder of the path ahead.
Along with the 160 cards is a booklet where you'll find six exercises, but don't feel obliged to use any of them: you might just want to arrange the cards yourself according to whatever order comes to mind.
Details
Measures 15,9 x 11,8 x 2,1 cm
Counts 160 cards + 20 page booklet
The School of Life x Misc Store Amsterdam
Alain de Botton founded The School of Life in 2008. His aim was to make philosophy — long seen as the inaccessible, inauthentic stuff of academies and archives — a functional aspect of modern life. The care with which ancient philosophers thought about their lives remains a valuable antidote to the generalised anxiety of our era.
The school thus posits that ideas of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics are as relevant to us today as they were in ancient Greece. Even if Epicurus never had social media burnout, understanding his thinking can lead us to a healthier relationship with , for example, our phones — and by extension, with one another.
We began stocking The School of Life’s series on work, gratitude and pleasure as a way of thinking through modern day issues. We admire their series for the capacity to stimulate reflection, and their ability to give a new perspective on age old problems. At its core, it is a set of strategies for finding meaning in the modern world — so that we can appreciate small pleasures and the things that might go unnoticed.
