"I do these curiosity conversations every wed Wednesday. I've probably talked to three to 400 people from forty plus countries, all sorts of background and soci economic status." "If you're able to create some space from that, often people are just pulled toward stuff in natural ways" 'When you're pulled toward something, you don't even think of it as tinkering' says the author.
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