High performance isn't born. It's made.

This book uncovers the eight essential habits of the world's leading sportspeople, coaches and entrepreneurs.

From taking responsibility for your situation to finding your 'Trademark Behaviours', it reveals how the world's highest-achieving people unlocked their potential - and how you can too. Anyone can learn the secrets of high performance.

'Full of valuable principles with real-world relevance to people's everyday lives' Toto Wolff

'So many differen...

A guided questionnaire to help us progress towards emotional maturity and encourage us to live up to our full potential.

From the new pocket book series, featuring key ideas from The School of Life exploring self-knowledge.

A magnificent photographic celebration of the work of the most exciting and innovative contemporary shoemakers and boutique designers.

Every human being has something individual and unique to offer themselves and the rest of the world. The moment you stand in your rightful place in the fountain, you feel a surge of energy in your body in the form of fulfillment, enthusiasm, and joy. You perceive that you are embedded in something greater than yourself and feel supported by it. This force directs and guides you in a way that can hardly be articulated, but which can be perceived when you listen to the signals your body receive...

Drastic events can have a significant impact on your life whether it’s getting an illness, experiencing a burnout or depression, seeing an accident happen, going through a divorce, losing a job, losing job prospects, or other misery. It is often intense and drastic. But challenging times or misery can ultimately also completely transform the course of your life positively.

“Stronger through misery”. You may think this is an odd title. And yet it is possible.

Why would you always need to...

In a world with intense external pressures, where we often take on many different roles, it can be quite a challenge not to get ahead of ourselves. We all reach a point where we wonder, “But what do I really want?” This book helps you answer that question. So that you can always stay true to yourself and live your life the way you want instead of what others expect of you.

The more we are true to ourselves, the happier we are. And the happier we are, the more we can contribute to the happ...

This book will reacquaint you with your right brain. It will show you how to harness the power of ideas. In short, it will ensure your career survival.

Think about it, your left brain has received a solid 20 plus years of training, your right brain, 0. Your left brain has clever tools such as math, language, and science, you right has small pieces of sticky yellow paper. For all of the business processes that deal with complex problems, we have overlooked the foundational element of it all, �...

Quality contact and mutual understanding can be as vital to our survival as food or sleep. And this is why we respond so positively to anyone who has the skills to close the UNDERSTANDING GAP, creating an interpersonal 'click'.

This book is a communication tool box for people who wish to take the lead and make a difference. It identifies the essential building blocks and takes you along the path of successfully implementing them.

A deciding factor in choosing to work with a person or organisa...

Truth has always been a central philosophical category, occupying different fields of knowledge and practice. In the current moment of fake news and alternative facts, it is mandatory to revisit the various meanings of truth. Departing from various approaches to psychoanalytic theory and practice, the authors gathered in this book offer critical reflections and insights about truth and its effects. In articulations of psychoanalysis with (for instance) philosophy, ethics and politics, the rea...