Paul Millerd Quotes

once you are on the pathless path, defining your own constraints and fixed points is not a choice, it’s essential to thriving on your journey.

You don’t need grit to live a full life

Literally just do one thing unlike most of the other people in your life like even biking to work and you already have an interesting life

The goal is not to be in the arena. It’s to be across the street playing in a field with your kid

The best metric of happiness is actually just how easy it is to be happy for other people pursuing their dreams

“Everyone in society can’t do this!”

Is not the dunk you think it is

If everyone went to the same McDonald’s in NYC at the same time things would fall apart.

The plurality of human weirdness is a fact of life we can count on.

You’re just projecting your own fears

The exercise has six steps. The first four are straightforward: Write down the change you are making. List the worst possible outcomes. Identify actions you could take to mitigate those outcomes. List some steps or actions you might take to get back to where you are today.

We are convinced that the only way forward is the path we've been on or what we've seen people like us do. This is a silent conspiracy that constrains the possibilities of our lives.

You don’t have followers you dislike. You just have parts of yourself you haven’t dared to love yet.

from Dolly Parton: "Find out who you are and do it on purpose."⁠10

i dont know who needs to hear this but you are not supposed to reply to comments to answer questions from someone editing your writing

you are supposed to just make direct edits to satisfy the question!

I see so many people doing "feedback" on writing but just sort of hanging out in comments rather than vigorous rewriting

I have a suspicion that a whole bunch of energy will get unlocked. I’ll just start doing things, and creating things and talking to people, and going to places…that I cannot fundamentally imagine right now, and it will be that stuff that shapes my life going forward…I am curious what else will show up.”⁠3 He was able to take the leap because he had tapped into the power of wonder, enabling him to be excited about an uncertain future.

Many people try to work less by working more and embracing productivity hacks

The key to working less is working less and then working through all the discomfort and eventual clarity that surfaces

trying to hit escape velocity via financial leverage asap is probably a mistake for most people

mostly because doing so often undermines the process of preparing for the freedom you're buying and the art of exercising it

just because you can get clicks, can get a bigger audience, perform personas online to get attention doesnt mean you should

underneath this stance is a nihilism or cynicism undermining the value of your own ideas or thinking