This is a book about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail

From the international bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this lyrical, erudite look at our world of

A fresh approach to matters of the heart, teaching us that success in love need never again be just a matter of luck.

One of the trickiest tasks we ever face is that of working out who we really are. If we’re asked directly to describe ourselves, our minds tend to go blank. W

The difference between success and failure often hangs on a fascinatingly small and elusive concept that our standard education system never touches: confidence