The best approach I’ve found for figuring out how I want to live is Tim Ferriss’ idea of “mini‑retirements,” which he introduced in his book, The Four‑Hour Workweek. He got the idea after realizing that he disliked typical vacations where you pack as much as possible into one or two weeks. After getting burned out on a short trip, he asked himself the question, “Why not take the usual 20–30‑year retirement and redistribute it throughout life instead of saving it all for the end?”88 With this mindset, he designed his own mini‑retirements, trips of “one to six months” where he would test out
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