Paul Millerd Quotes

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.

ive realized the way forward on my path is to do the most creative thing that feels right

when I start talking about such ideas, take action on them, move forward in that way, it feels right

a life of steady success sort of requires being fully absorbed in a worldview of seeing succcess as a fundamental building block of life

I think when you leave this, it can take quite a bit of time to let go of needing things to work

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

when money becomes more of a god, do art

you dont have to try to monetize everything

especially early

you are allowed to just have fun

woke up each morning and did what I felt like doing.

Professors Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun have suggested that many people who face crises often experience “post-traumatic growth” and that this manifests as an “appreciation for life in general, more meaningful interpersonal relationships, an increased sense of personal strength, changed priorities, and a richer existential and spiritual life.

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.

life is not a personal project on yourself

Find a life you love and then do as much of the things you enjoy as possible

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

we've created entire productivity idea complexes all because dudes are too scared to take a week to do what feels good and test if they'll actually end up homeless and broke

I didn’t become self employed to follow playbooks and be successful. I did it to explore the frontier of a different life and a bigger conversation with the word

The word burnout was coined in the 1970s by Herbert Freudenberger, an American psychologist who studied workers in free health clinics. He found that the prime candidates for burnout were those who were "dedicated and committed," trying to balance their need to give, to please others, and to work hard. He noticed that when there was added pressure from superiors, people often hit a breaking point.52