Never Retire: Living The Semi-Retired Life

Never Retire: Living The Semi-Retired Life

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Never Retire: You Stay Young By Deciding To Remain In The Game And Do The Work
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Never Retire: You Stay Young By Deciding To Remain In The Game And Do The Work

Learning a language, writing, yoga, moving abroad — it’s not about mastering any of it. It’s about not checking out.

May 04, 2025
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A thread runs through what I write here, even when I’m not directly saying it.

People want the arrival. They don’t want the path.

  • They want to show up in a new country and feel fluent—or expect everybody to speak or understand English.

  • They want to move abroad without discomfort.

  • They want to be writers without writing.

  • They want to create without struggling (to learn a craft!).

  • They want to start a project and have it land before it’s lived.

  • They want results without the slow, boring parts—without the work.

In some cases, you can replace want with expect.

As I think about it, expect probably fits better in instances where people lash out—at so-called bureaucracy, at whatever—rather than take a moment to reset and look within.

Taking moments to reset and look within—it’s the number one thing you do when you move to a new country. And that’s when it’s going really well.

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