Paul Millerd Quotes

I aim to be mediocre in most of my effort

Any beliefs I had about being a parent before becoming a parent were just shitty hypotheses

when you reinvent your life and steer in a new direction, there is a wandering phase almost all must pass through

you can put this off and distract yourself for years

but thou shall wander through the lostness of life one way or another

Every time you see someone talking about grinding just replace it with suppressing joy.

optimizing for engagement metrics is a great way to hide

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

it is much easier to go with the winds of what most other people are doing than to do what 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

Most of the good life advice is antimemetic. If it somehow has become viral the person dispensing it has spent 10+ years on a spiritual journey and now communicates poetically

A lot of viral “advice” is really just tactics good for a year or two

Just move toward the life you want and stop focusing on money as the problem to be solved

I can assure you that you don’t need to be in the arena. This is mostly a fictional place people working on laptops have created in their heads to avoid emotions

generosity is a practice not a strategy

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

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

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