AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST WITH STEVEN BARTLETT From the Sunday Times bestselling
author of The School of Life This is a book about how to optimise your mental health. Written
with kindness and sympathy it is a practical guide to emotional well-being calm and
psychological maturity. Alain de Botton explores how we can cope with a variety of mental
challenges from the mild to the severe. It considers how and why we can get overly anxious or
low how we can best understand our pasts and how they shape us and how we can build
resilience so as to live wisely alongside certain difficulties. At heart this is a book about
psychological happiness - about discovering equilibrium and meaning and finding our way to
connection and joy. 'This book does a wonderful job of making you realise that the thing
you're going through and the way that you are isn't evidence of your inadequacy. It's
actually evidence that you are perfectly human' Steven Bartlett author and host of The Diary
of a CEO 'One of our most consistently illuminating writers on contemporary culture' John
Gray New Statesman
