The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life

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The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life

The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life

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The point here is to keep finding work that you actually enjoy doing. And you should always experiment with different types of work to find out which work you like the best and build your life around the type of work that you enjoy. 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.

An example would be that expectations for a successful life mean that these moments occur should happen before age 35: graduating from school, getting a job, falling in love, and getting married. It’s tempting to tell a simpler story. People want to hear about bold acts of courage, not years of feeling lost. On my way toward leaving my job, I never had a clear picture of my next step.” Starting this journey will bring a sense of vagueness about the journey. But really it is the beginning of seeing the world in a new way. Economist Daniel Kahneman found that ‘ the importance that people attached to income at age 18 also anticipated their satisfaction with their income as adults.'” (Note: The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel also talks about how views on money are formed early in life) a series of decisions and accomplishments needed to be seen as a successful adult (these vary by country, but in the United States, we refer to this as the ‘ American Dream,’ which means a life centered around a good job, owning a home, and having a family).

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Paul starts trying different jobs - interviewing people about Allbirds, helping a professor launch a non-profit in Boston. Paul moves to Boston to reduce his living expenses as NYC. Paul enjoys the newfound freedom and ownership over his life.

For most people life is not based on all-or-nothing leaps of faith. That’s a lie we tell ourselves so that we can remain comfortable in our current state. We simplify life transitions down to single moments because the real stories are more complex, harder to tell, and attract less attention. The headline, “Quits to Live on a Sailboat” seems more impressive and is easier to talk about than “Couple Slowly and Purposefully Tests Out a Life Transition while Aggressively Saving Money Over Five Years.” As a result, we hear fewer of the real stories, most of which include some kind of prototyping. ” People, including myself, have a deep desire to work on things that matter to them and bring forth what is inside them. It is only when we cling to the logic of the default path that we fail to see the possibilities for making that happen. I split into two different versions of myself. One, ‘Default Path Paul,’ focused on continuing my career, looking for the next job. The other, ‘Pathless Path Paul,’ was finding his footing and starting to pay attention to the clues that were showing up. Clues that would lead me not to another job, but to another life.”People aim for ‘ financial independence‘ only to realize when they achieve it that they’re only independent in the narrow sense of being able to pay for everything.” The comfort we feel when we do what is expected keeps us from developing the skills we need to face uncertainty.” One of my most important is the mantra ‘coming alive over getting ahead.’ I embraced this fundamental shift when I left my previous path, and the mantra reminds me that I don’t want to create another job for myself. When I see an opportunity to make money, scale something, charge more money, or move faster, this phrase reminds me to explore all possibilities first, including doing nothing.” My mother credits the health crisis I faced in my 20s for putting me on my current path. ‘It changed you,’ she says. While I don’t think it was the sole reason I left the default path, my illness did change my relationship to uncertainty.”



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