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Several years ago, Joshua Fields Millburn was director of operations for an American telecoms company. He had a six-figure salary, a big house and a fancy car. But, despite all that, he was surprised to discover he wasn’t particularly fulfilled.
‘I saw that all the people above me at work were unhappy – they were having heart attacks in their 40s. I thought, “If I work hard enough for the next 10 years, I could be just like them…” Suddenly, my future didn’t seem so appealing.’ At around the same time, Millburn’s mother died and his marriage ended in the space of a month.