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After working at McKinsey and getting an MBA from MIT, Paul Millerd was succeeding well on a path that “made sense”. However, things started changing when he had a health crisis, which ended up with him embarking on a pathless path. Since 2017, he’s been tinkering with multiple side-hustles, writing newsletters, creating podcasts, traveling, and helping others join the pathless path.
Show Notes:
- Having fun paying bills
- Jumping off your fitness landscape
- The first few years of being self-employed
- Connecting with the subconscious self
- Internet as an off-ramp
- How to stir up curiosity
- Lessons from DJing
- The social construct of retirement
- Internet economy requires showing up daily
- Design for liking your life
- Tinkering
- Embracing laziness
- Luxury of doing what you want
- The shift from cynicism to optimism
- Societal progress over the last decades
- What’s next for Paul?
Books Mentioned:
- The Pathless Path; by Paul Millerd
- The Body Keeps The Score; by Bessel van der Kolk