Trying to Get More Out of the World Than There Is in It

The Art of Unlearning, Chapter 2, Part 2

“I’m constantly bored.”

So says Petra Ecclestone, an enormously rich heiress who bought one of the largest houses in the United States in 2011 when she was just 22 years old.[i] Petra told the New York Times that she bought the house unseen with her then husband for $85 million.[ii]

The couple were divorced in 2018, but Petra met her second husband in 201…