![]() ![]() There's a lot of talk about the way that you might get in your own way-you might be in thrall to the 'arrival fallacy'-that the next thing, the next promotion, the next whatever, that'll be when you'll be fine, you might be pursuing membership of CS Lewis' Inner Ring, you might be acting from fear due to a scarcity mindset around what work may come. Embracing your uncertainty, breaking out of an (ultimately false) stability can, in Millerd's telling, lead to a different, better life. The default script, here, is one that seeks to trade the removal of some deep fears for a certainty of stability, progress and advancement-but at the cost of something profound within you. It proceeds through author Paul Millerd's life, showing how he acquired, wrestled with, and is ultimately discarding the 'default' life script of continuous upward corporate progression and increasing consumption for one of a more curiosity-driven exploration. The book's not a how-to guide, but rather a brief life-story sketch, and a series of provocations. I've done roughly 2/3rds of that in a slightly different order, so I'm being pretty well laser-targeted to help me get the rest straight here. It's a book about a consultant who's questioning where he's at in his career after some health issues, finding that leaving his full-time job to do freelancing fixes some but not all of his issues, and rethinking what he wants and how it might change the way he approaches not just work but everything else. There are books that you feel could've hit you hard if you'd found them at the right time, but they came too early, or too late. "The writing is fantastic - Paul's writing is approachably poetic a quick read that weaves together his own experience moving from a 'default path' overachiever to a 'pathless path' seeker of passion and curiosity, deep research into the history of work and collections of perspectives from years of podcasting, friendship, conferences, and meetings with other 'alternative path' life-livers.RECOMMENDED if you're a vaguely disaffected knowledge worker Paul Millerd You are in the grip of an invisible script that was not written for you." - Kris Abdelmessih If you have felt a gradual loss of agency in your direction you need this book. "If you have questioned your own path, or a nagging lack of intention in your choices you need this book. The advice is refreshingly non-prescriptive." "It's a rare book in that it is tangentially about careers and being more focused and productive, but unlike almost every other book I have read about these topics, I finished this one and felt better about myself and my career." This book is a personal journey of awakening and 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. Through painstaking experiments, living in different countries and the goodwill of people from around the world, Paul Millerd 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. The Pathless Path is about finding yourself in the wrong life, and the real work of figuring out how to live. From small-town Connecticut kid to the most prestigious consulting firm in the world, brushing shoulders with CEOs and with the resume to match. It takes a few wrong turns to find the right way. ![]()
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