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Everyone nowadays believes in education.
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We train kids to do maths, we teach pilots how to land planes, and surgeons how to operate on our brains.
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But there's one area where we don't seem to believe in education at all and we just leave people to figure it out themselves: Life itself.
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There's an odd silence in education when it comes to the truly big questions:
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Who should we get together with?
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How can you manage your relationship?
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What career are you suited to?
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What's money for?
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How can we manage anxiety and what do we do with regret and shame?
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What do we do about illness and aging?
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How do we deal with our families?
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Here there is, very strangely, often no one to turn to, nowhere to go, so stress accumulates and disasters occur.
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We wanted a place to help with this stuff, so we built: The School of Life.
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An open-minded, rigorous unideological organisation devoted to helping you deal with the important things you were never taught at school:
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Relationships, careers, anxieties, and emotions.
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We have physical hubs across the world in London, Paris, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Melbourne and Rio.
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And here online, we'll be posting new films every week that address the great questions.
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We don't have to keep making the same mistakes. There are things to be learnt, while there's still time.