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

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The main takeaway is that our current conception of work and its place in our life is not only not the way it’s always been, but is relatively new on the scale of human history, and even now there are many different ways to think about work.

It’s to experiment in new ways, to remix your own path, to develop your own personal definition of freedom, and to dare to have faith that it will be okay, no matter how much skepticism, insecurity, or fear you face. In his own mind he is fighting the battle to stay on the default path, mentioning aiming for another raise and promotion. These might be for instance, tolerant/intolerant, nice/mean, mindful/unmindful, happy/sad, angry/peaceful, selfless/selfish, and so on. By choosing a unique and personal fixed point, you raise the odds of finding a path to stay on and serving an important role in pushing culture forward.College graduates raised on the internet looked around, collectively said, "fuck this," and got jobs they could work from anywhere. But the Church’s expectations had always provided a way to measure “goodness,” and for many, these benchmarks no longer applied. This has left large numbers of people around the world confused and frustrated with their relationship to work. From the creators of ABZÛ, The Pathless is the mythic adventure of an archer and an eagle in a vast forest. If you are not sure what I mean, take a look at his book Tools of Titans , a great book to be sure, but it is primarily a list of lists.

Rather than trying to tame or control them learn to accept they exist and co-exist and open up to the world. On the pathless path, the goal is not to find a job, make money, build a business, or achieve any other metric. No one wanted to grapple with this fundamental question: “Why the hell are so many grown adults spending their time on obviously pointless tasks? Become the Hunter, a master of archery who travels to a mystical island to dispel a curse of darkness that grips the world. After being unemployed for several months, money was once a consideration was now a very important aspect of life.Interbeing” is a word that is not in the dictionary yet, but if we combine the prefix “inter” with the verb “to be”, we have a new verb, inter-be. When freelancing or being indepedent, one must really focus on the quality of ideas and the ability to do good work. This approach, one of prototyping a change, is not only a better way to think about taking bold leaps but is quite common across many people’s stories.