The Pathless Store by Paul Millerd
The Pathless Path
The Pathless Path
The Pathless Path is memoirish nonfiction about Paul Millerd's journey leaving a prestigious consulting career and rebuilding life without a master plan before he is financially independent. A mix of equal parts history, philosophy, and data-driven insights will challenge your current understanding of work. This is not a hustle "quit your job to get rich" playbook, nor is it a how-to book you are supposed to implement with an 8-step framework. If you feel stuck or dissatisfied, it helps you imagine a bigger life.
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How did work become the center of our lives?
This question sent me on a five-year journey to see if there was a way to build a positive relationship with work.
The surprising answer? There was, but it meant rejecting much of what I thought was true growing up and what most people around me believed.
I had quit my job with the intention of becoming a freelance consultant, working a bit less and having a little more flexibility. I had no idea what I was doing. A few months into the journey, I felt drawn by a deep sense that I needed to experiment more with my life.
I started contemplating hard questions, the ones I had kept safely buried beneath the surface.
- How much money did I really need?
- Who was I if I didn't have a clearly legible title or path in life?
- How do you handle not knowing what the future looks like?
- What did I really want to work on?
- How do you design a life worth living?
- What happens when you don't orient your life around work?
Over the next few years, I attempt to answer these questions, and to do so, I find myself drawn to living abroad, experimenting with non-work, unleashing my curiosity, and grappling with my insecurities and fears.
Surprisingly, I start to find some simple but powerful answers from history, philosophy, and my own experience, ones that offer a dramatically different story about our modern relationship to work.
By Paul Millerd
Paul Millerd is an independent writer, freelancer, and digital creator. He is the author of The Pathless Path and Good Work. He has written online for many years and has built a growing audience of curious humans from around the world. He spent several years working in strategy consulting before deciding to walk away and embrace a pathless path. He is fascinated by how our relationship to work is shifting and how more people can live lives where they can thrive