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Turning Seventy — The Life Lessons Collection

The Life Lessons Collection

Turning Seventy

Getting Ahead of the Decade Before It Arrives

by William “Billy” Brown

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About the book

A quiet reckoning, written plainly

Written honestly ahead of Billy’s own experience — he hasn’t turned seventy yet — this short book is built from real conversations with men who have, compiled as honestly as possible rather than presented as firsthand wisdom. Covers what the body still has to negotiate, a different relationship with time, and what the most contented men in their seventies seem to have in common.

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Chapter One

From the opening pages

I want to be honest with you before we go any further, the same way I was honest at the start of the book about losing a spouse: I haven’t turned seventy myself. I wrote Nobody Tells You This at Sixty from the inside of that particular decade, as it was actually happening to me. This one is different — written a little ahead of where I actually am, from watching men further along this road than I currently am, and from genuine curiosity about what’s still coming.

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About the author

William “Billy” Brown

William “Billy” Brown
Billy, at home in Scotland

Billy is a Scottish engineer, author and musician who spent more than thirty years working around the world before he ever thought of himself as a writer.

He writes from lived experience rather than theory — about work, love, distance, and the quieter lessons a working life hands over.