As Good As It Gets: Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult

by Romesh Ranganathan

how to crush your goals, and the one thing that has struck me about all of them is that these people are proffering advice from a position of having it nailed. I definitely do not have it nailed. In fact, I think it’s fair to say that I am finding new ways to remove the nails and drive them into my own face.

Holidays are what keep you clinging to the idea there is some sort of point to the work–retire–die cycle we have convinced ourselves is life. They are moments of freedom and purpose. In adulthood, you fall into a pattern of going through the daily grind of work desperately looking forward to the next break you have booked, hoping beyond hope that it will offset the misery of having to be somewhere every day that is slowly draining the life out of you.