Paul Millerd Quotes

Generally I’ve seen that finding a satisfying life path is easier if you quit your job before you are “financially independent” whatever that means to you.

Post exit founders often struggle the most because they can’t just turn it “on” again. Their skills is doing a whole years long pursuit. So there is more resistance to running that back. But for the most part they do just end up running it back. The happiest tend to be the ones that don’t do it to run away from the inner feelings that crop up post exit

The problem with making lots of money is that people tend to overindex on using the skill of making money as a way to spend one’s time.

Doing new things not only means less money but being bad at something.

Most people see the risks of making a life change and imagine that they need to become more confident. They see others do it and project confidence.

Usually it’s about feeling the fear more deeply while also giving yourself permission to be excited too. Many people have never given themselves space to be absolutely exuberant about possibilities in their life.

if you want to see where the future of books is going, you need to be paying attention to fantasy and romantasy and fan fiction self-published authors

some of these writers are world-class entrepreneurs

Some people think I have it figured out

I don’t. Quite uncertain about this path the next few years. Not sure if things will work.

But I will just keep trying stuff and seeing where it takes me.

The big shift I have made is not seeing uncertainty as a problem to be solved.

Self publishing is just entrepreneurship

i beg you to put some sort of creative work above money, status, connections, future opportunities, and all that

the world needs more of that energy

not another sales funnel, or cheap content that "works"

I don’t know what the future is going to look like and that’s okay

people talking about work in terms of energy are basically right

in our lifetime vast amounts of work we used to have to "grind" on are going to become just a matter of compute and energy

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

if you claim you are grinding and mostly work at a keyboard i just cant take you seriously

most decisions are not hard if you trust making decisions from consistent principles

People hate considering that your life’s work may involve working less for pay

authors are too friendly too each other

there should be more beefs, more critical reviews, more competition

i think it would raise the bar for everyone

Success in business has more to do with interest in business and finance more than almost every other factor

Now a successful life? That’s got many paths

once you trade away your creative energy for a payoff, it is very hard to get it back