I was a bit disappointed in ths book. Mainly because I've read several of Bottons other books and really liked them. I realise that this is not a "normal/standard" Alain de Botton book. It seems more like a compilation of other texts. All from The School of Life.
It has some very interesting insights and is therefore well worth reading, but it repeats more or less the same ideas in different ways or with different words. It also often goes into too much detail.
It doesn't have that much concrete advice either which one would expect from this kind of book.
Worth a read but I liked Bottons "own" books better.