I wanted to write personalized messages to everyone who asked me to sign copies of the book. I wanted to respond to every email I received from readers. I wanted to speak in front of rooms full of people who were eager to become Essentialists. Each of them wanted to share their stories with me-and I wanted to hear them. People who had read or listened to the book three, five, or seventeen times wrote to tell me about how the book had changed their life, or in some cases even saved it.
The success of Essentialism had changed everything. That year was a blur of airport lounges, Ubers, and hotel rooms, to which I would return in the evenings, exhilarated and exhausted, and call down for room service. On one such trip, I arrived at my book signing at the scheduled time to find that three hundred people had lined up around the corner and the store had run out of books-which had never happened before at an event. My wife, Anna, loved that I often took one of the children with me on these adventures, and so did I. I had the opportunity to travel the country giving keynotes, signing books, and sharing a message that was close to my heart. After my first book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, was published, I hit the speaking circuit.
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