The School of Life

We’re dependent on language to express how we feel, and yet words often feel vague or inaccurate. There are lots of moods, needs and feelings that our own language has not yet properly pinned down. 

The perfect word - even if it comes from abroad - helps us explain ourselves to other people, and its existence quietly reassures us (and everyone else) that a state of mind is not really rare, just rarely spoken of. 

This set of cards defines some of our favorite words from the world’s languages and marries them up with complementary images to create cards that bring some of our most important feelings into focus. We’ve created them to prompt greater reflection about the nature of language and emotions. These cards are designed to reflect the excitement we find in encountering an old photograph or an object in a flea market or antique stall, one that feels familiar yet foreign and is thus infinitely evocative.

Examples:

DUENDE (Spanish): A heightened sense of emotion created by a moving piece of art. 

FORELSKET (Norwegian): The euphoric feeling at the beginning of love. We can’t believe someone so perfect has wandered into our lives. They enhance and complete us. We might report: ‘I was overpowered by forelsket as our fingers interlaced…’ 

YŪGEN (Japanese): Gives a name to a mood in which one feels that the universe as a whole possesses a mysterious and elusive beauty. Moonlight, snow on distant mountains, birds flying very high in the evening sky, and watching the sun rise over the ocean all feed this sensibility.

A guide for helping us focus on what we need to be fulfilled so that we can direct our energies and thoughts most effectively

Finding a partner.
Paying off the mortgage.
Reconnecting with my parents.
Less screen time.

It can be hard to decide what we really want to achieve in our lives; our ambitions are often scattered, diverse and difficult to pin down. This is a tool for helping us focus on what we need to be fulfilled so that we can direct our energies and thoughts most effectively. It can be hard to decide what we really want to achieve in our lives; our ambitions are often scattered, diverse and difficult to pin down. 

This attractive box contains 160 cards detailing our most common ambitions and longings, along with instructions on how to reflect on our goals, arrange them in a logical order of priorities and, where necessary, weigh up trade-offs. Using the cards will help us to reveal our true goals, even our purpose in life. The cards can be displayed, photographed or kept close to hand as a reminder of the path ahead. 

A simple-seeming but ingenious psychological tool for converting hunches and dreams into a realizable future.

A toolkit of 100 questions to spark exciting and meaningful conversations. 

It isn’t easy to get into a good conversation. Many of our best ones seem to happen by chance. Far from it! A great conversation starts with someone asking a great question. Inside this portable, design-forward box, on beautiful cards, you’ll find 100 of the very best questions around—carefully designed to get a group of people into exceptionally entertaining and meaningful conversations.

20 Menus with 12 questions per menu, across varying themes - to foster friendship and bring meals to life. 

So many of us spend a lot of time getting the food right when we invite others over for a meal, but in the end what makes a really great dinner party is the conversation.

Typically, we stumble on fascinating conversation topics by chance. Shyness can hold us back. Too often, we revert to polite, but not especially inspired, staples or anecdotes. Arranged to accompany each course, these twenty beautifully designed Conversation Menus lead us artfully to some of the most fascinating and revealing conversation topics. They invite us to open up about themes such as love, money, travel ambition, self-knowledge and the meaning of life. They contain questions and invitations to discussion that will raise smiles, build friendships and foster the best kind of intimacy, ensuring that our meals together can be everything we hoped.

Exercises to build better team dynamics 

In order to work well together, people need more than just technical skills; they need to get to know and understand each other. We know this intuitively: it’s why fortunes are spent on team-building exercises. But because expensive off-site work retreats aren’t always possible, The School of Life has designed a game that requires nothing more than a room and a little free time. 

Teamwork contains 100 questions that playfully and sensitively introduce us to our colleagues by setting up the best kinds of conversation about everything from our childhoods to our values. Played as a group, these cards promote conversations that humanize colleagues in each other’s eyes and help to create an atmosphere of forgiving and kind collegiality around the office. A proven, easy way to turn individuals into a team. 

Topics covered include: Flaws, Fears & Regrets, Character Work, Likes & Interests, The Past

60 cards to prompt us to share our intimate desires 

Although the pleasures of sex are well known, we too often forget about the pleasures of talking about sex: what feels nice, what we like to daydream about, what we long for, our fantasies and where they come from. But what could be more interesting - or sexy? 

This pack of cards is designed to spark the best kind of pillow talk: it helps us explore sex with intimacy, playfulness and intellectual curiosity. Here are sixty questions to provoke some of the best conversations possible, guaranteed to leave us with a new sense of liberation and closeness.

60 cards for understanding how we feel

It can sometimes be very hard to know – let alone tell others – what we actually feel. This is a product to help us begin this therapeutic journey.

Each card puts a finger on an emotion that we might be experiencing without being able to pin it down exactly. The cards range in themes from the happy to the sad, the agitated to the serene. The backs of the cards are beautifully illustrated by artist Helen Cann, and can be arranged into a mindful map of emotions.

Use with a friend, a partner, a therapist, a child or a parent – in any situation where we want to sift through a range of emotional options in order to define what is truly coursing through us. With charm and ease, we become clearer to ourselves – and a lot more understandable and open to others.

A set of 52 question cards to spark insightful and playful encounters 

Great dates are made up of great conversations: ones where we find out more about one another, discover what makes us both tick, share some of what we like and reveal how we see the world. 

This is a collection of cards that can be used on a date to help provoke the best kinds of discussion. This pack includes 52 cards, each one posing an intriguing question or setting a challenge, designed to provoke, entertain and stimulate. As a bonus, the cards are graded according to how probing they are (Easy, Medium and Hard) so that you can playfully match the discussion with the flow of an evening.

52 cards to prompt journalling; helping us to better understand ourselves and our priorities

Journaling is one of the most effective ways to regain direction and calm: but what we should ideally be journaling about isn’t always clear.

This set of prompt cards directs us to some of the most fruitful topics for reflection and self-exploration. Use them as you journal to find inspiration and encouragement. Each of the prompts engages the mind in some of the things that matter most and helps us to better understand ourselves and our priorities.

The prompts tackle key topics around relationships, careers, emotions and ambitions. They invite us to go on new journeys within ourselves that will leave us more joyful, self-aware and serene.

Instructions

• Flip through the cards when the urge to journal strikes.
• Stop where it feels relevant; and let the prompt guide you towards new insights and awareness.
• Write as much or as little as feels relevant.
• Repeat regularly.
• Alternatively, use the cards to inspire reflections that don’t get written down. You might even use them in a discussion with a friend.

Puzzles and Ideas To Help Young Minds Grow 

Children are born philosophers – but in order to fully bring out the best of their thinking, it helps to equip them with the largest and most thought-expanding questions. This is a pack of the very sharpest, based on the biggest conundrums of philosophy, and is guaranteed to generate lively, warm and fascinating conversations among families and friends. No prior knowledge is required; all that counts is a spirit of curiosity.

The pack includes questions like: Is it ever right to lie? When might freedom not be a good thing? What’s the difference between living and being alive? How does money make you happy – and when doesn’t it? With these questions to hand, conversation will forever be profound and entertaining, and minds young and old will have a crash course in the joys and adventures of philosophy. The cards cover five categories: What Is Right and Wrong? What Is Real? What Is Society? Is There a God? What Is the Meaning of Life?

60 prompt cards with ideas and questions designed to help you find confidence 

We often assume that we must accept the levels of confidence we currently possess. But confidence is not a given: it is a quality we can learn about and develop in ourselves. 

These Confidence Prompt Cards keep a variety of consoling and invigorating arguments at the front of our minds, ready for the greater and smaller challenges of our lives. They remind us, for the sake of confidence, to speak to ourselves in a kind way, and to remember that the greatest thing we should fear isn't messing up, but not trying it out in the first place.

A Living Eulogy. A portrait of your ideal evening. A prompt to breathe—40 activities to help us get in touch with our inner playful and introspective selves

We are used to thinking of good conversation as the glue that holds friendships together, but we shouldn’t forget the immense value of playing games, with some of the same spirit of fun and adventure that we once deployed when we were children. Here is a pack of forty activities to draw us away from static conversation. Among other things, we will build a fort together, dance in surprising ways, deliver funeral orations, practice our acting skills, and play some entertaining (but kindly) pranks. The games are an invitation to cast aside reserve and get in touch with neglected imaginative aspects of ourselves. They are a reminder that friendship doesn’t only require talking; it thrives just as much on the light-hearted but significant business of playing together.

52 exercises designed to train our brains to find their bearings and generate their very best efforts

Motivation is a tool for increasing our effectiveness. Our minds are not machines—we’re all prone to distractions, indecision and cognitive biases – but these can also be worked around and overcome. Each exercise in this handy set prompts us to engage in activities and thought experiments that help us surmount mental blocks, and formulate strategies for solving problems and achieving our goals. This collection of psychological solutions is an invaluable resource for unlocking our true potential.

A set of cards that display beautiful photographs of life’s small pleasures. 

Find beauty in overlooked things! This set of cards gives us gentle reminders for those small pleasures in life which we sometimes overlook—with images on the reverse.

A lot of what makes life worth living isn’t to do with great, heroic or costly things, but with modest pleasures that are all around us, largely unnoticed, available for almost nothing. It might be a beautiful sky, the smell of freshly cut grass, or a friend who understands how we feel. With beautiful photography and a few well-chosen words, this pack of cards draws us back to an appreciation of the overlooked ordinary, gently prompting us to remember that life is more precious and richer than we generally allow.

A card set to help you feel grounded and more present, by being mindful of the world around us

Many of us struggle to feel ‘present’ – that is, fully in tune with our surroundings. We remain locked inside our own heads, so distracted by stress and anxiety that we fail to take notice of – and pleasure in – the world outside.

What we need are some lessons in the forgotten art of noticing. This card set contains a collection of small yet remarkable things to watch out for as we go about our day, with exercises  for how to make the most of their wisdom - such as making a note of lost things, or actively listening to birdsong. It encourages us to seek beauty in the everyday things we might otherwise overlook, reminding us how, in even the most mundane of settings, there is much to interest, excite, distract and delight us.

By studying these cards and following their suggestions, we stand to rediscover presence and serenity.

52 cards to complete the story in our minds

Here is a set of cards that offer us an entertaining and unique way to learn about what’s really going on in our minds.

Each card presents the beginnings of a story and invites us to imagine the rest. What might happen to the little boy and girl lost in the forest, or the couple on the day after their wedding? The prompts range from whimsical openings inspired by classic tales, to more grounded, psychologically challenging scenarios.

How we complete these stories reveals a remarkable amount about our values, fears, concerns and hopes. It is up to us whether we answer playfully or therapeutically, as long as it is honestly. Play the game in company for entertainment and confession; play it alone to mine the contents of your deep self.

From The School of Life— a card set for working out what you really want

From The School of Life comes an ingenious tool – based the psychological research of Hermann Ebbinghaus – for working out what you really think and want. 

This set is made up of 52 cards, each of which features a different unfinished sentence (for example, “Men are …” “I want …” or “What I really need is …”). Complete them as fast as possible, without censoring whatever comes into your mind, to discover what you really feel, fear, want, regret, or are angry about. The broad variety of topics and open-ended nature of the prompts allows honest insights to be drawn about a range of areas of our lives, such as friendships, relationships, work, and wants. 

With the potential to be as serious as you make them, they are ideal as conversation starters for group discussion, alone for therapeutic insight, or simply as a fun mode of self-discovery.

Use these cards repeatedly to nurture a newfound sense of self-understanding and clarity.

A Tool to Explain Our Moods

It can be hard to tell other people how we really feel—sometimes it’s hard for us to even identify our own moods.

This is a tool to help us overcome our vagueness: cards that offer definitions of twenty moods that we can all recognize but that can be hard to pin down and explain. Here are descriptions of - among many other things - the sense of feeling weepy, nostalgic, anxious, and dreamy. These cards help us reach a clearer understanding of our inner emotional weather. They can also be passed on to friends and colleagues (or simply displayed on our desk) so that the world can better know what's going on inside us, without our needing to explain too much.

Also includes a fun, spinnable (and colorful) mood barometer.

Re-Discover Wonder and Excitement with these fun adventure cards

Adulting is hard! One of our deepest urges is for life to be more adventurous: a little more excitement, playfulness, interest and passion. Unfortunately, many adventures, especially the “big” kinds, are too expensive, or they threaten to turn everything upside down. What we need, then, is access to smaller, more pocket-sized adventures. 

We call these “Everyday Adventures” – from something tiny like eating an unfamiliar fruit to rereading your favorite book, to asking a parent what they were like as a teenager. This is a suggestion box to spark the imagination, revive the spirit and motivate us towards the slightly more adventurous lives we long for. 

52 cards with questions and exercises for deeper and more meaningful conversations with friends

Meeting up with our friends is one of life’s great pleasures. We look forward to a chance to connect, share news and reaffirm our affection and sense of fun. But having a great time together, even with people we know well, is not necessarily as simple as it sounds. We don’t always manage to hit the right sort of topics of conversation and get to say the truly important things.

52 conversation cards to help break the log-jam between parents and their teenager

Not many teenagers want to talk to their parents that much. Their reasons are numerous and often sensible; yet for parents, the silence can feel painful and mysterious. What happened to their once chatty little ones? What might teenagers truly want to tell their parents, if only there was the right opportunity? And what might parents want to tell their children in turn, if it didn’t generate an immediate eye-roll? This is a pack of cards that can help the conversation and levity between generations with humor and curiosity.

A game for two people to assess their compatibility—with charm and wit

The Compatibility Game is designed to help two people in a relationship (romantic or otherwise) assess their level of compatibility. It helps to identify areas of alignment and divergence in their values, ambitions, goals or beliefs and, at the same time, discuss the significance of all these things. Crucially, the game does not suggest that incompatibilities cannot be overcome: the basis of successful relationships is not compatibility but compromise!

A box of wise emergency advice for 20 key psychological situations, including Friendship, Love, Sex, Work and Self

"I resent my parents so much"

"I will never find the right partner"

"I’m in the wrong job"

"I don’t know how to make friends…"

We are all plagued by moments of worry and distress. When we injure ourselves, we reach for a first aid kit. But when we are hurt or lost emotionally, what can we reach for? Introducing an emotional first aid solution. This deluxe box set 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. Hopefully we won’t face them very often (if at all), but knowing how we might respond can lend us an important degree of confidence and resilience. This kit is an artful collection of some of what the wisest and kindest, most experienced and most thoughtful people might say to us if they were beside us in a crisis.

52 cards for greater serenity, ease and clarity

In an overcomplicated world, what many of us crave deep down is greater simplicity: less clutter, fewer commitments, less static and chaos. This ingenious set of cards asks us a range of deceptively simple questions – which we can answer by ourselves or with friends – that focus our minds on what really counts. They give us confidence to assess what we might give up on and where our true focus should lie. They ask us to look at our careers, our relationships, our family lives, and our ambitions more broadly. In a few easy steps, these cards help us prioritize and sift – and, with gentle humor, guide us to the simpler lives we long for and deserve.

52 exercises to foster diplomacy, empathy and effective communication within teams

Let’s get this party started!

Is this truism true?

And relax!

Collaboration is a tool for helping people work together better: 52 exercises designed to build empathy, insight and trust between colleagues. Intended to transform the atmosphere in teams, it prompts people to participate in a range of tasks and thinking exercises that strengthen their ability to cooperate and lend them insight into how others’ minds work. In a playful and often entertaining way, this toolkit aims to achieve something critical: the creation of a team that can work seamlessly and imaginatively together.

The School of Life’s guide to the rest of a life together

Our society devotes huge attention to the start of a marriage – and the wedding ceremony —but the real challenge lies beyond the wedding, with the long years ahead, and here we are often left alone.

This box is The School of Life’s guide to the rest of a life together, containing twenty beautiful cards which lay out the central ideas on how to make a relationship work over the decades beyond the wedding day. It is filled with artful suggestions on coping with what even the most loving couple will face as they build a life together. This set of cards is both a celebration of marriage and a rich source of insights into the skills it demands.

A set of 60 cards to remind us of the many reasons we have to be thankful

We are experts at focusing on what is missing from our lives. Our dissatisfaction often serves us well; it keeps us from complacency and boredom. But we are also dragged down by an inability to stop, take stock and recognize the abundance around us. In our haste to secure the future, we omit to notice the good. This pack of cards is designed to help us pause in our striving and, for a few moments, remember some of what we have to be grateful for — a consoling, soothing balm to carry around or keep close at hand.

The Dilemmas Game —What would you do if…

In life, we are regularly faced with dilemmas: complex moral problems for which there are no obvious answers. When a friend confesses to having an affair, do we keep their secret? When a stranger is crying on the bus, do we offer comfort or keep our distance? In such moments, we long for some good advice to help us find a way forward. 

The Dilemmas Game invites you to flex your moral muscles and compare your problem-solving skills with those of your friends and family. Players must propose different solutions to 52 common dilemmas, using analogies or drawing on real-life experiences to explain their answers. It’s a fun and enlightening way of practicing for the inevitable quandaries of life. The cards cover five categories: Relationships, Work, Sociability, Family, and Leisure.

60 prompt cards designed to help lead you through the important task of knowing yourself a little better 

It's hard to understand who we really are: what we want, how we feel and why we react as we do. This lack of self-knowledge can cause trouble. It makes us get into the wrong relationships, pick jobs we don’t love or spend money unwisely. No wonder Socrates summed up all the counsel of philosophy in just two words: “Know Yourself.” 

These cards are designed to assist us in a journey of self-knowledge. They present us with 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 you gain insight and clarity on that ever elusive subject: yourself.

Laugh & Reconnect With Those Who Matter Most

The idea of family lies close to the meaning of life, but in practice, families do not always come together, or chat about what matters, or laugh as much or as often as they should.

The Family Game is the solution; this is a game expressly designed to help family gatherings live up to our highest hopes. It consists of a host of questions (chosen randomly with a dice) that kick-start the best sorts of conversations: ones in which we reconnect, say things we always meant to, laugh warmly together – and remember why family counts. The cards cover five categories: Gentle Teasing, Gratitude, Self, Memories, and Regret.

52 exercises to stimulate creativity, playfulness and innovative thinking

Whatever our job title, our work will always benefit from new ideas and fresh ways of thinking. We’re used to regarding inspiration as something that arrives more or less at random; it is in fact a skill that we can learn to develop in ourselves and call on whenever we need it.

Inspiration gives us a toolkit for generating new ideas. Here are 52 exercises designed to foster an inventive frame of mind. We don’t need to wait for inspiration to strike! With this set, we can kindle inspiration when we need it. Each exercise prompts us to work on a particular creative muscle and helps us to establish the psychological conditions for original work. Drawing insights from the worlds of art, music, psychotherapy and innovation, this is an invaluable (and playful) resource for creatives and professionals alike, helping our minds to become more reliable, lightning rods to stoke flashes of inspiration.

52 cards to deepen and transform the experience of travel

Going travelling can be one of life’s greatest activities – but often, we fail to deepen the experience as much as we should and return home with some of the promises of our trip unrealized. 

Here is a pack of cards designed to help us get the very best out of travel – and to embed its greatest lessons in our minds. These cards contain questions that we can reflect on privately (in a journal or on a train ride) or ask others in a group. This is an ingenious, low-tech, high-impact solution to one of the great conundrums of travel: how to ensure that the reality of going away will match our hopes. And it makes a great bon voyage gift!

Learn to Talk. Learn to Listen. 

What would you like to tell your mother, if she could really listen?

If you could wave a magic wand, what would you want to be able to alter about your life?

When we end up in a really good conversation with a friend, we sometimes pay them a slightly unusual but sincere compliment: we say that chatting to them feels like talking to a good therapist. What we tend to mean is that they’re giving us space to talk, not interrupting us or dispensing advice: they’re actually listening. 

This game cannot turn us into real therapists (that would take years of training). But like many good games, it gives us a chance to try out, in an entertaining yet safe way, one of the most interesting sides of a great profession. 

The Therapy Game offers us a rare opportunity to listen and speak to one another at truly fulfilling length and depth.

The Confessions Card Game - A simple game of cards and dice opening up daring conversations

From adolescence onwards, one of the great struggles we face is how to reconcile our own desires with those we find socially acceptable. 

The best encounters with friends are those where we can talk honestly about what's going on in our lives, sharing triumphs, joys, fears and longings - without the usual shyness or reserve. This confessions game—meant to be played with friends—guarantees that the warmest, most fascinating conversations won’t have to be left to chance. With the help of a dice and some cards, the game asks participants to answer a series of questions around career, sex, money, relationships, family, gently inviting everyone to share important bits of themselves in an intimate and playful atmosphere. 

By thinking of confessions as a game – as a sociable and exploratory activity, as opposed to a risky affair – the cards prompt us to open ourselves up to interesting and exhilarating conversations, allowing us to be a little more honest around the most intimate aspects of ourselves.

40 Place Cards with 80 Questions for Sparking Meaningful and Revealing Conversations Around the Table 

“If you had to write a book, what would it be about?”

A meal with friends is only ever as good as the questions we ask one another. 

Too often, we fall back on polite but not so inspired staples: “What are you doing this weekend?” or “What do you do for work?”, and so on. But there are better kinds of questions – questions that work like magic to open up our hearts, draw out our memories and promote generosity, fun and interesting conversation.

This pack collects 80 of these sorts of questions to ensure a meal together can be at once meaningful, entertaining and touching. For casual dinners with friends, or potentially rife holiday meals with relatives.

Laid out on place cards, the questions gently and charmingly pull our fellow diners towards the sort of topics that matter most to our deeper selves – and help us get the most out of one another.

60 prompt cards designed to help you find compassion and empathy

We are all interested in being kind—at least, in theory. In practice, a lot gets in the way: tiredness, anger, bitterness. But a lack of kindness lies at the heart of so much of what goes wrong at work, in friendships, and in love. These Kindness Prompt Cards present us with a series of thoughts that nurture our sympathy, our powers of compassion, and our appetite for forgiveness. They return us to who we always want to be and deep down already are: kind people.

50 of the best insights and sayings from the great Stoic thinkers 

“If you have the will to conquer anger, it cannot conquer you.”—Seneca

Originating in Greece around 300 BCE, Stoicism was for many centuries the most popular philosophy in the Western world, teaching people practical advice on how they could flourish in uncertain times and overcome their anxieties. This box of cards gathers together the best insights and sayings from the great Stoic thinkers and marries them up with commentaries that bring out their applicability to our own lives. 

This is both an elegant summary of ancient philosophy and a route to self-knowledge, serenity and strength of mind. 

How to Use the Cards These cards are designed to introduce us to the philosophy of Stoicism and its relevance to our day to day lives. On one side, we find quotations from its leading proponents: among them, the ex-slave Epictetus, the politician and dramatist Seneca, and the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. On the reverse, we learn more about the history, beliefs, and practice of Stoicism from its origins to the present day. They can either be read individually or as a continuous essay. Once contemplated, the cards can then be kept or displayed somewhere close at hand as a continual reminder of stoic wisdom.

Discussions to Keep Love True Relationships—and a tool with which to save love

Relationships usually go wrong not because we are “bored”  or “with the wrong person”— but because we have failed to make ourselves understood and haven’t managed to understand our partner. Sometimes, relationships need to hit a restart button. 

These cards reopen channels of emotional communication. Compact, with questions and supporting micro-essays, invite candor, confession and radical openness. We often give up on each other too soon. Relationships that, with the right assistance, might have been good enough (or even more than that) come unstuck because we don’t work out how to speak about, and listen to, what is really on our minds. This box is a tool with which to save love.

A pack of 52 cards to help us understand what truly matters through deep and entertaining conversation

What do you wish you had realized earlier?
What do you secretly enjoy?
What would the child you think about the adult you?

We sometimes playfully wonder what the meaning of life might be - but it can be hard to kick start a conversation with ourselves (let alone with anyone else) around such a daunting subject. 

Here are 52 cards that directly and elegantly lead us to some of the largest questions about life and its meaning – cards that help us and our companions to think with exceptional depth about what truly matters, where we see ourselves heading and what gives life its purpose. This is a tool for direction, clarity – and some of the deepest yet most fun and entertaining conversations we’ll ever have.

A set of 20 cards featuring fresh perspectives through which to look at life

We are constantly at risk of losing perspective around the challenges we face. We mistake what is manageable, or we despair too soon. We alienate others by over-reacting, or we don’t notice and appreciate what there is still to be grateful for.

These cards provide eloquent invitations to recover a wiser, calmer, redemptive perspective on our lives. Each card identifies a fresh perspective we might take on problems – perspectives colored by time, space, history, culture and travel among others – nudging us gently and compassionately towards a more liveable relationship with our difficulties.

A set of double-sided cards designed to help us become more confident—and more resilient

We often overestimate how fragile we are. In our nightmares, we assume that life would become impossible for us far earlier than it actually would. In reality, we could manage perfectly well with a lot less than we currently have. Not that we should want this to happen, of course: it’s simply that we could bear it. This set of cards is designed to gently remind us that we are far stronger than we imagine.

Short prompts on one side are accompanied by illustrative photographs on the reverse.