The School Of Life Research

This brief has strong links to psychology relating to childhood and adulthood, particularly how our childhood activities influence what we enjoy and our careers as adults. I discussed my ideas for this brief with my mum as she is a psychologist and she mentioned that The School Of Life would be good for research.

Website to the school of life: https://www.theschooloflife.com/

The School of Life is an educational company that offers advice on life issues. It was founded by Alain de Botton in 2008 and has branches in London, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Berlin, Istanbul, Melbourne, Mexico City, Paris, São Paulo, Sydney, Seoul, Taipei and Tel Aviv.

The products that I felt most relevant for my research were the Emotional First Aid Kit and the Know Yourself Prompt Cards.

Emotional First Aid Kit: A box of wise emergency advice for 20 key psychological situations, including: Friendship, Love, Sex, Work and Self. It contains what’s most urgently needed to contain a situation - until calm returns or more substantial help can be called for.

'This is a counterpart to that medical first aid kit, an emotional kit that provides a set of useful salves to some of life’s most challenging psychological situations.'

The design is modelled after medical first aid kits, reminding us of the crucial importance of emotional as well as physical health.  

Know Yourself Prompt Cards: 60 prompt cards designed to help lead you through the important task of knowing yourself a little better in life.

The cards are designed to assist us in a journey of self-knowledge; they present a range of ideas and questions that can help us to understand ourselves better. Each card carries an exercise on one side and a piece of analysis on the reverse to help the user gain insight and clarity on that ever elusive subject: yourself.

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