Complete The Sentence
Complete The Sentence by The School of Life include 52 cards, each featuring a different unfinished sentence (for example, ‘Men are …’, ‘I want …’, or ‘What I really need is …’). The idea is to complete them as fast as possible, without censoring whatever comes into your mind, so that you can discover a range of things you might deep down really feel, fear, want, regret or are cross about, that may be just outside of ordinary consciousness. Using the cards offers a newfound sense of self-understanding and clarity, as well as the sheer good fun of self-discovery.
Details
Measures 9,1 x 6,7 x 2 cm
Counts 52 cards
How to use:
1. Set aside a quiet period to run through the cards, either the whole pack or a selection.
2. Complete the sentences at speed, saying the very first thing that comes to mind, however shocking, direct or emotional it happens to be. The stubs will be effective only to the extent that you can surprise yourself into realising what you’ve known-but-not-known all along.
3. Consider writing down your answers and then return to them later for further reflection. In what ways might your answers be slightly different from what you would ordinarily have understood about yourself? What are you learning about who you might really be?
4. Repeat this process as often as possible; your answers will differ because the unconscious mind is never static.
The School of Life x 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.
Complete The Sentence by The School of Life include 52 cards, each featuring a different unfinished sentence (for example, ‘Men are …’, ‘I want …’, or ‘What I really need is …’). The idea is to complete them as fast as possible, without censoring whatever comes into your mind, so that you can discover a range of things you might deep down really feel, fear, want, regret or are cross about, that may be just outside of ordinary consciousness. Using the cards offers a newfound sense of self-understanding and clarity, as well as the sheer good fun of self-discovery.
Details
Measures 9,1 x 6,7 x 2 cm
Counts 52 cards
How to use:
1. Set aside a quiet period to run through the cards, either the whole pack or a selection.
2. Complete the sentences at speed, saying the very first thing that comes to mind, however shocking, direct or emotional it happens to be. The stubs will be effective only to the extent that you can surprise yourself into realising what you’ve known-but-not-known all along.
3. Consider writing down your answers and then return to them later for further reflection. In what ways might your answers be slightly different from what you would ordinarily have understood about yourself? What are you learning about who you might really be?
4. Repeat this process as often as possible; your answers will differ because the unconscious mind is never static.
The School of Life x 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.
Description
Complete The Sentence by The School of Life include 52 cards, each featuring a different unfinished sentence (for example, ‘Men are …’, ‘I want …’, or ‘What I really need is …’). The idea is to complete them as fast as possible, without censoring whatever comes into your mind, so that you can discover a range of things you might deep down really feel, fear, want, regret or are cross about, that may be just outside of ordinary consciousness. Using the cards offers a newfound sense of self-understanding and clarity, as well as the sheer good fun of self-discovery.
Details
Measures 9,1 x 6,7 x 2 cm
Counts 52 cards
How to use:
1. Set aside a quiet period to run through the cards, either the whole pack or a selection.
2. Complete the sentences at speed, saying the very first thing that comes to mind, however shocking, direct or emotional it happens to be. The stubs will be effective only to the extent that you can surprise yourself into realising what you’ve known-but-not-known all along.
3. Consider writing down your answers and then return to them later for further reflection. In what ways might your answers be slightly different from what you would ordinarily have understood about yourself? What are you learning about who you might really be?
4. Repeat this process as often as possible; your answers will differ because the unconscious mind is never static.
The School of Life x 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.
