• The Meaning of Life Cards
  • The Meaning of Life Cards
  • The Meaning of Life Cards
  • The Meaning of Life Cards
  • The Meaning of Life Cards
  • The Meaning of Life Cards
  • The Meaning of Life Cards

The Meaning of Life Cards

The School of Life

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The Meaning of Life Cards is a tool for direction, clarity – and some of the deepest yet most fun and entertaining conversations we’ll ever have. It features a pack of 52 cards to help us understand what truly matters through deep and entertaining conversation, with ourselves or...

The Meaning of Life Cards is a tool for direction, clarity – and some of the deepest yet most fun and entertaining conversations we’ll ever have. It features a pack of 52 cards to help us understand what truly matters through deep and entertaining conversation, with ourselves or with others.

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. These cards 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. 

    Details

    Counts 52 cards
    Measures 9,1 x 6,7 x 2 cm
    Suitable for adults
    Played alone or with others

    The School of Life at Misc-store Amsterdam

    At Misc-store we carry three Writing as Therapy Journals: Journeys, Night Thoughts and Projects. We also carry their prompt cards for confidence, self knowledge and even career crisis, and we love their books on Small Pleasures.

    The School of Life is devoted to developing emotional intelligence through the help of culture. We address such issues as how to find fulfilling work, how to master the art of relationships, how to understand one’s past, how to achieve calm and how better to understand, and where necessary change, the world.

    We love The School of Life because their items make a great gift for ourselves and others. Back in 2013 we started with a range of The School of Life items in store, and we are so happy that we can extend our range with all their new items, focusing on the job we have, appreciating small pleasures and the things that might go unnoticed.

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    About The School of Life

    The School of Life at Misc-store Amsterdam

    Alain de Botton founded The School of Life in 2008. His aim was to make philosophy — long seen as the inaccessible, inauthentic stuff of academies and archives — a functional aspect of modern life. The care with which ancient philosophers thought about their lives remains a valuable antidote to the generalised anxiety of our era.

    The school thus posits that ideas of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics are as relevant to us today as they were in ancient Greece. Even if Epicurus never had social media burnout, understanding his thinking can lead us to a healthier relationship with , for example, our phones — and by extension, with one another.

    We began stocking The School of Life’s series on work, gratitude and pleasure as a way of thinking through modern day issues. We admire their series for the capacity to stimulate reflection, and their ability to give a new perspective on age old problems. At its core, it is a set of strategies for finding meaning in the modern world — so that we can appreciate small pleasures and the things that might go unnoticed.