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The Sunday Times Presents Life Lessons

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Welcome to Life Lessons. A weekend of big talks from big thinkers. Where we dare to dream of a better future.

Every day, we are bombarded with new ways to improve ourselves, to be happy, to live well. It’s impossible to work out which ones are the real deal and which are just snake oil. Until now.

At the inaugural Life Lessons weekend, their mission is simple. They’re going to find the answers to life, the universe and everything. With the help of a carefully curated line-up of smart thinkers, Life Lessons, Presented by the Sunday Times, will apply a healthy dose of scepticism and a large chunk of science to an industry and world built on promises. Is clean eating really good for you? What does a healthy society look like? Is it possible to parent mindfully? And where are we on butter?

Join Bill Bryson, Ruby Wax, Derren Brown, Marie Forleo, Alain de Botton and many more as they interrogate their way through the wellbeing maze.

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