Essential Ideas: Love

  • Relationships

Key ideas from The School of Life exploring relationships

The School of Life has distilled its most essential lessons on love in order to produce a pocket manual that is at once useful and entertaining. We learn – among other things – how to pick partners more reliably, how to avoid conflict and how to know whether a relationship is really for us.

Product description

We should cease to imagine that a satisfied love life is a chance event; with this book in hand, it emerges as something that we can all plot for and achieve. Love is a skill, not an emotion; this is a guide to how we might master it.

Chapters include:

  • Arguments
  • Dating Apps
  • Love as Generosity
  • Romantic Disappointment
  • Sex
  • Unrequited Love