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The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life (The Pathless Path Collection Book 1)
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Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition (The Pathless Path Collection Book 2)
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"The Pathless Path is a fantastic book for anyone that’s curious about leaving the corporate world behind. As someone starting out on a “pathless path” myself, I found Paul Millerd’s book on the topic to be a very helpful and cathartic read. By weavin"
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"It is missing the “check your privelege” part and yet if you’re reading this, there’s a good chance author’s priveleges that enabled him to jump unto the unknown from a stable corporate job won’t sound too ridiculous for you."
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“On the pathless path, the goal is not to find a job, make money, build a business, or achieve any other metric. It’s to actively and consciously search for the work that you want to keep doing. This is one of the most important secrets of the pathless path. With this approach, it doesn’t make sense to chase any financial opportunity if you can’t be sure that you will like the work. What does make sense is experimenting with different kinds of work, and once you find something worth doing, working backward to build a life around being able to keep doing it.”
― The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
― The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
“The word burnout was coined in the 1970s by Herbert Freudenberger, an American psychologist who studied workers in free health clinics. He found that the prime candidates for burnout were those who were “dedicated and committed,” trying to balance their need to give, to please others, and to work hard. He noticed that when there was added pressure from superiors, people often hit a breaking point.52”
― The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
― The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
“Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.”
― The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
― The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
“We might at first label the body’s simple need to focus inward depression. But as we practice going inward, we come to realize that much of it is not depression in the least; it is a cry for something else, often the physical body’s simple need for rest, for contemplation, and for a kind of forgotten courage, one difficult to hear, demanding not a raise, but another life.”
― The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
― The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
“By 1927, Coolidge worked no more than about four and a half hours a day—“a far lighter schedule than most other presidents, indeed most other people, have followed,” as the political scientist Robert E. Gilbert once observed—and napped much of the rest of the time. “No other President in my time,” recalled the White House usher, “ever slept so much.” When not napping, he often sat with his feet in an open desk drawer (a lifelong habit) and counted cars passing on Pennsylvania Avenue.”
― One Summer: America, 1927
― One Summer: America, 1927
“I heard in a sermon once that the definition of self-control was to choose the important over the urgent. I think as a writer, it is difficult but necessary to defer gratification and to do the work and to keep doing the work regardless of its prospects. I think John Gardner’s advice to writers was very good—basically, not to expect that writing would provide for your needs, but to write anyway if you must. Often, I’ve wished that I could’ve had quicker success, greater financial security, more respect, et cetera, as a writer. For nearly twelve years now since leaving the law, I have often felt ashamed for wanting to be a writer and doubtful of my talents. What helped in these moments was to consider what was important, rather than the urgent feelings of embarrassment and helplessness. What was important is still important now: to learn to write better in order to better complete the vision one holds in one’s head and to enjoy the writing, because the work has to be the best part.”
― Free Food for Millionaires
― Free Food for Millionaires
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