James Bailey

The Meaning of Life by James Bailey is born out of a time when Bailey found himself unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In his desperate search for an answer, he decided to reach out to luminaries from all walks of life, posing them a single, profound question: What is the meaning of life? Then he waited....

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James Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In desperate search of an answer, he decided to write to luminaries from all fields and ask one simple question: What is the meaning of life? Then he waited. Slowly but surely their responses arrived through his letterbox. From entrepreneurs and environmentalists to artists, authors, and adventurers, The...