El camino sin camino (tapa blanda)

How did work become the center of our lives?

This question sent me on a five-year journey to see if there was a way to build a positive relationship with work.

The surprising answer? There was, but it meant rejecting much of what I thought was true growing up and what most people around me believed.

I had quit my job with the intention of becoming a freelance consultant, working a bit less and having a little more flexibility. I had no idea what I was doing. A few months into the journey, I felt drawn by a deep sense that I needed to experiment more with my life.

I started contemplating hard questions, the ones I had kept safely buried beneath the surface.

• How much money did I really need?
• Who was I if I didn't have a clearly legible title or path in life?
• How do you handle not knowing what the future looks like?
• What did I really want to work on?
• How do you design a life worth living?
• What happens when you don't orient your life around work?

Over the next few years, I attempt to answer these questions, and to do so, I find myself drawn to living abroad, experimenting with non-work, unleashing my curiosity, and grappling with my insecurities and fears.

Surprisingly, I start to find some simple but powerful answers from history, philosophy, and my own experience, ones that offer a dramatically different story about our modern relationship to work.