Is Chasing Success Ruining Your Life?

What I Learned After Reaching the Top

The Dream and the Reality

I grew up lower middle class, with big dreams of becoming a novelist. At 14, I wrote in my diary that one day, I would write the Great American Novel. Fast forward to my first book deal at age 32: a six-publisher bidding war that left me over the moon. Suddenly, I had more money than I’d ever seen and a low-level fame that made …