The Pathless Path - Paul Millerd

The Pathless Path

Paul Millerd

出版社

Paul Millerd

出版时间

2022-01-13

ISBN

9798985515305

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍
It takes a few wrong turns to find the right way. Paul Millerd thought he was on his way. From small-town Connecticut kid to the most prestigious consulting firm in the world, brushing shoulders with CEOs and with the resume to match. The Pathless Path is about finding yourself in the wrong life, and the real work of figuring out how to live. 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. 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.
精彩摘录
  • "Most 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."
  • "What was I living for? What did I really want? How did I want to look back on my life when it was my time to go?"
作者简介
Paul Millerd is an independent writer, freelancer, coach, and digital creator. 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 about how our relationship to work is shifting and how more people can live lives where they can thrive.
用户评论
优点是阅读广泛,个人经历有趣。学外语即学习了解一种新的文化,道家“无为”对他的启发对得起他每周学习30小时中文的投入。可专门挑战default path(小镇做题家),跟the Millionaire Fastlane提供的视角完全不能比,作者是写Quora起家的,跟很多大V一样,blog、podcast都能做好内容,可一旦出书立即显得轻浮,缺乏对初始问题的深刻钻研。真正要解决的什么是什么?什么都懂一点,其实什么都不懂。很有趣的一个表达是展示了非常青藤名校择业时面对的学历歧视(non-target),后期转型略有逃避之嫌,digital nomad光鲜背后的辛苦没讲,三星。
个人经历挺有趣的,但是后期每一个论点感觉都有点车轱辘话来回说给人一种只有从9to5的工作中break free才能真正体味生活的暗示,这是不是也是另外一种bias呢?
读同时代的人的书就很像跟朋友聊天一样,书中引用了好多熟悉的名字的quotes,就非常millennials的做法,要用别人的话证明自己说的有道理😂 总体还是好看的, the right book at the right time.
有种把作者阅读的书的内容拿来拼贴自己的人生路径的感觉,就是那种大家都会说得的出来的道理,但是也还是佩服从default path走出来的人
一种关于工作和生活方式的新的可能。能感觉到作者挺真诚的,鼓励读者去探索一个更有意义,有趣的生活。自己真的去做,这本书就有价值,不去做就是鸡汤。看自己怎么选了
适合对脱离传统职场、对数字游民、自由职业感兴趣的人阅读。书的前后部分有点啰嗦,但中间部分对传统职业,以及人们为什么在讨厌职场却还是会 cling on 朝九晚八、内卷内耗的工作无法割舍背后的心理和社会理论分析非常有启发。
“The pathless path is an alternative to the default path. It is an embrace of uncertainty and discomfort. It’s a call to adventure in a world that tells us to conform.”
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