All this said however I do believe that for someone like myself coming from a very low earning household that it’s easier said then done compared to someone like Paul who’s got the capacity to leave it all behind but still join a 5-6figure job if he really needed to. Sprinkled throughout are fantastic little stories, interesting questions to ask yourself as the reader and why following the pathlees path might just be what you should do. The book generally walks through the writer’s life and does a good job of building a decent picture of why he started this path in the first place. This book was the meditation on work and life I was looking for and it’s really helped me feel a lot more confident in just giving things ago and remembering that we’re all on our own path. This year I’ve decided to take a long hard look at my life and if I’m living in accordance with my values and to shape my life again from the ground up. But to me, this book was, indeed, made for me. So just go find another one that will, sincerely. So if this book doesn’t resonate with you, I believe that just means you’re not the core audience for this book, that you don’t have the feelings floating around that this book puts into words. I think the reason we like a book is because it confirms a certain desire or belief within ourselves, only making it more potent and saying the words we’ve been trying to say ourselves. By changing my thoughts around what my goals actually are, I could outline the steps on how to get there, as opposed to all of it floating around in my head. One of my favourite things about this book is that it helped me redefine what I want: not necessarily change what I want, but I’ve used certain words and definitions in my mind that I thought was accurate, only to now realize much of it was incorrect. And I absolutely love that! This is the book that makes you excited to actually just take take action, write, contemplate, challenge your beliefs, and go out there to seek more learning from all the authors/poets/bloggers Paul quotes in this book. He’s truly taken all that wisdom and put into action while also sharing the humongous amount of quotes with us, which means I have another 50 books added to my to-read list because of this one. Paul Millerd is obviously someone who reads a lot. So good that you’ll need the physical book too! This book is an ideal companion for people considering leaving their jobs, embarking on a new path, dealing with the uncertainty of an unconventional path, or searching for better models for thinking about work in a fast-changing world. The Pathless Path is not a how-to book filled with “hacks” instead, it is a vulnerable account of Paul’s journey from leaving a path centered around getting ahead and towards another, one focused on doing work that matters. Through painstaking experiments, living in different countries and the goodwill of people from around the world, Paul pieces together a set of ideas and principles that guide him from unfulfilled and burned out to the good life and all of the existential crises in between. This Pathless Path is about finding yourself in the wrong life, and the real work of figuring out how to live. Yet he decided to walk away and embark on the "real work" of his life - finding the things that matter and daring to create a life to make them happen. From a small-town Connecticut kid to the most prestigious consulting firm in the world, he had everything he thought he wanted. It takes a few wrong turns to find the right way.
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