Are you a proper grown-up? Philosopher and founder of The School of Life, Alain de Botton, joins us with a guide to facing life’s challenges with confidence, kindness and good-natured intelligence.

From the tribulations of love to the perils of status anxiety, the illusion of the work-life balance to our collective addiction to the news, Alain de Botton has been our guide to the challenges of everyday life for more than thirty years.

In novels, essays, films, and the classes taught by The School of Life, his global organisation dedicated to imparting an emotional education, Alain distils the best ideas in philosophy and psychology into witty apercus for living wisely and well.

Now he returns to How To Academy to share his insights into emotional maturity. True emotional maturity is a state few of us ever reach – or at least not for very long. But it may help us to try to lay out what some of its constituent parts are so that we have an idea what we might aim for.

Alain will prompt us to look at how we respond to rejection, frustration, anxiety, ambiguity and hope by asking questions such as: How much do you like yourself? Do you worry too much about the opinions of other people? What might be the best way to become a more interesting person?

Don’t miss this rare and exclusive talk by one of the most widely loved thinkers of our age.

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