Paul Millerd Quotes

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

Mentorship is basically replaced by peer groups these days

With work I want to create more consumer surplus than value I extract myself

You can basically enlighten yourself through tweeting. And people use this platform to optimize for followers with content teams instead

when you start exploring a new topic, shift to a new domain, or move in a new direction you are filled with two feelings at the same time: excitement and the fear from an uncertainty void.

life is art, if you let it

a reminder that you don't need to make a ton of money fast to keep doing creative work

you can enjoy creative work for itself, you can do it with others, you can be ambitious in generous ways

don't let strongly worded content hack your sense of what you are called to do

To go further you must eventually go slower

True creatives want their ideas to constantly be challenged

Every day AI dissolves some task that someone built their identity around. And on top of that a narrative of struggle involved with doing that task.

The reality: your work isn’t special. You aren’t special. No work can make you so.

Let go of the stories

if you really want to do creative work, or finish a big creative projects and want to do it full out, channeling your inner fire, not as a commercial project, the last people you want to be following are people making money from courses or agencies

it shouldnt need to be pointed out but it is far easier to make money if you like talking about generic broader themes and happen to actually love business and making money

if you have niche interests, weird artistic proclivities, or want to do novel experiments, you will likely make less. its just way easier if you price this in earlier

do or do less, there is no try

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

My general philosophy with sharing my work is actually treating it like a gift. There is no expectation in me gifting anything. I don’t care if someone shares it or shouts it out publicly. One author asked how I determined ROI on my gifting of books. I don’t. It’s a gift.