The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life

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The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life by Paul Millerd 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

a b Reiner, Andrew. "The Pathless Review – A Liberating And Spirited Adventure". Game Informer . Retrieved 2021-06-19. Having faith does not mean being worry-free: I still worry about money, success, belonging, and whether I can keep this journey going. However, I’m able to recognise that the right response is not to restructure my life to make these worries disappear. It’s to develop a capacity to sit with those anxieties, focus on what I can control, and to open myself up to the world. Behind our money fears are existential fears, like the fear of death or the fear of not being loved, respected, and admired. These fears are likely not solvable but we can learn to coexist with them. This is also why financial worries can be infinite and people can chase more and more their entire lives. The flip side of this is that if we can learn to coexist with our financial insecurities, we can turn them into a secondary concern. This opens you up to the real secret: the opportunities of the pathless path are infinite too.

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People who have successfully made changes have done so through wonder. Wonder is defined as: state of being open to the world, its beauty, and potential possibilties. The need to cope becomes less important and the discomfort on the current path becomes more noticeable. In 2019, Gallup surveyed Americans about success. In response to the question, “How do you personally define success?”, 97% agreed with the following statement: A person is successful if they have followed their own interests and talents to become the best they can be at what they care about most. In response to the question, “How do you think others define success?”, only 8% gave the same answer. Instead, 92% felt that other people defined success as follows: A person is successful if they are rich, have a high-profile career, or are well-known. When making your content or pursuing your creative outlets. Remember to remind yourself who your core audience/supporters are. Once you work this out you should focus in on what makes your content great for your target audience. Finding a new life path requires creativity – it requires us to relinquish control and embrace uncertainty and “the spirit of the fool” – accepting you’ll be clumsy as you learn new things At best these questions sound circular, like a snake biting its tail. But the contradiction is straightened out, and the pathless path makes sense, when you realize one simple thing: The active mind isn’t the same as the still, quiet mind. Every method of spiritual seeking, if it is successful, goes beyond the active mind and its restless baggage of sensations, images, feelings, and thoughts, with the aim of settling down into pure, undisturbed awareness. By analogy, one dives below the churning surface of a raging river, moving through deeper waters where the currents are slower, until one reaches the bottom, where the river is almost motionless.

Paul navigates the recruitment processes for various companies by attending networking events, landing interviews and ended up taking an offer with GE. When we can’t meet the script’s demands (e.g. live with parents or still studying at 25), it causes massive anxiety & confusion on how to live life As you transition into self-employment, you realize that you subconsciously adopted a “worker identity” – your whole life revolved around work (e.g. social life, where you live etc) One of my favourite things about this book is that it helped me redefine what I want: not necessarily change what I want, but I’ve used certain words and definitions in my mind that I thought was accurate, only to now realize much of it was incorrect. By changing my thoughts around what my goals actually are, I could outline the steps on how to get there, as opposed to all of it floating around in my head. Remember – we tend to overestimate costs of changing, underestimate costs of staying the same and regret not taking a chance on ourselves – changing is often best for usReturning to work after a crisis moment makes you realize you have a “pebble in your shoe” – not enough for crazy change, but enough to get you to pay attention to life differently It’s not about earning more for the sake of it – but finding your “rich life” – consciously spending money on things that improve your life vs materialism to fill a void Getting Ahead: My journey of learning how to become a "hoop-jumper," breaking into strategy consulting, going to business school, and then how dealing with the loss of my health and someone important changes what I value

Don’t act on your fear of running out of money – causes you to do things you’d hate – chasing solutions reinforces the fear & distracts you – learn to coexist with it so it fades After Morrie passed, Mitch made some drastic changes to the activities in his life from being centered around work to instead focused on helping people. He created his own culture.Virtuous Meaning Cycles This is possible on the pathless path. You can experiment with your work and your life until you stumble into a virtuous cycle that helps you continue to move in a positive direction. By a virtuous cycle, I mean being able to do work that you enjoy that naturally leads to opportunities and people that help make your life better. You discover most of your spending is a “misery tax” – expenses an unhappy worker uses to function on the job that keep them there in the first place (e.g. alcohol, vacations) In this section it gives examples of how people work a job for the sake of having a job. Sometimes people are willing to spend their lifetimes completing pretend busywork or be in constant pursuit of more work for the sake of just working. Chapter 4 - Awakening Crisis moments can be from loss (e.g. loved ones, health, job) or from wonder/inspiration (e.g. travelling the world)

During that stretch of time, it would have been a mistake to opt-out of the default path because as Thiel points out: Whether you were born in 1945 or 1950 or 1955, things got better every year for the first 18 years of your life, and it had nothing to do with you. Takahashi, Dean (August 6, 2020). "Sony shows off gameplay for Giant Squid's The Pathless". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on September 28, 2020 . Retrieved September 21, 2020. Play the long game – stop running from things you hate and start experimenting with life until you find/do what matters to you deliberately – chase “freedom to” after “freedom from”Paul thought he was on his way. From a small-town Connecticut kid to the most prestigious consulting firm in the world, he had everything he thought he wanted. Yet he decided to walk away and embark on the "real work" of his life - finding the things that matter and daring to create a life to make them happen.