Paul Millerd Quotes

American independent writer

Paul Millerd is an independent writer, freelancer, coach, and digital creator. He has written online for many years and has built a growing audience of curious humans from around the world. He spent several years working in strategy consulting before deciding to walk away and embrace a pathless path. He is fascinated about how our relationship to work is shifting and how more people can live lives where they can thrive

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Receiving a gift well is just as hard not harder than giving mostly because you are not just getting something. You are being asked to participate in a bigger trust dance of life

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.

by liking this post, you will start a butterfly effect that will traverse the cosmos and start a chain of events that will snap someone out of hustle-induced self-coercion, kickstarting them on a path to loving themselves without them knowing

the most useful thing to do with how-to content is to completely ignore the advice and try something new

contribute new knowledge to the world. try random approaches. do the opposite

I never worked long hours or grinded hard at the expense of other things in my life toward work goals.

There’s no law that says you have to grind hard or suffer with work

we have an epidemic of boring work goals

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.

i dont think most people actually want time or money

many people who pursue money, get shocked that once they have it, time is even better

but after that, eventually people realize, all you really want is a life of caring - work, family, things you care about

optimizing for engagement metrics is a great way to hide

We are at the beginning of infinity of everything. This is why exploring ideas is beautiful. Not to build an audience, not to become successful. But simply to push that frontier.

when money becomes more of a god, do art

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

i have zero goals

all you goal people i find incredibly weird

Picking a path in life is not about being right. In fact, I think trying to be right is a trap.

I think the best way is always to embrace the sadness of potentially being wrong about how you are living, right now

On the pathless path, the goal is not to find a job, make money, build a business, or achieve any other metric. It's to actively and consciously search for the work that you want to keep doing. This is one of the most important secrets of the pathless path. With this approach, it doesn't make sense to chase any financial opportunity if you can't be sure that you will like the work. What does make sense is experimenting with different kinds of work, and once you find something worth doing, working backward to build a life around being able to keep doing it.