my toxic trait is thinking i can fix every hustle bro and turn them into a poet - Paul Millerd

everyone wants a book shaped ideas before they start writing a book

this is like running a marathon without running a mile

write for a month in a book-shaped document. format it. name it. create a table of contents. write a little every day. the path will appear

Most tit for tat sharing has bad assumptions about how ideas spread I think. It’s an outdated top down view of the world.

When I find something cool I share it hundreds of times. I think it’s more valuable to find these people even if they don’t have an audience

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.