The Little Book of Life Rules They Forgot to Teach

The problem is we were trained for exams, not existence. School told us to memorise dates, equations and facts. Useful? Maybe. Mostly to pass the test. And get a certificate. The system wants you to figure out “adulting” yourself. But life doesn’t test you on paper. It tests you when you lose someone you love, when the job falls apart, when your brain won’t shut up at night. And suddenly you realise: oh, right, I was never shown how to deal with this part.

What matters is whether you understand your own psyche enough not to self-destruct when life goes wrong.

They taught us trigonometry.

They didn’t teach us how to live.

They skipped lessons on self-awareness, emotional maturity, resilience or living well with others.

The stuff that actually decides whether you cope, collapse, or crawl your way through life.

That’s the hole this book fills.

It's the many life rules on the art of recovery when life is hard. How to read your own mind without flinching. How to calm down, not by numbing out, but by actually understanding yourself. Timeless wisdom from great minds on building a better relationship with ourselves.

School taught us how to pass exams. This book is about how to survive existential despair, how to recover when the people or the world breaks you, how not to rush through life. It’s a manual for the parts of life we’re expected to figure out alone. The stuff we should’ve been told before we got thrown into adulthood. Short lessons you can digest.

A survival kit for life inspired by the wisdom of brilliant thinkers who figured out a thing or two.

Practical truths. The kind of wisdom you can apply for life. This isn’t therapy. It’s not a philosophy class either.

It’s a little book on being human.