The Pathless Path is hosted by Paul Millerd - a writer, creator, and consultant. He has conversations with freelancers, self-employed entrepreneurs, creators, and vagabonds who share their perspectives on their relationship with work, burnout, bootstrapping, indie hacking, remote work, reinvention, … read more
“You can’t study or learn your way into a new identity” - I love this quote from Darren Joe. He’s been thinking about carving a different path from 2003 to 2004. He said that he was driven by a natural drive to be independent and do his own thing. I found this pretty impressive because in those years not many people were doing what he was doing.
He recently published a book titled The Fail-Safe Entrepreneur. In it he argues that almost all solopreneurs strive for three things: Freedom, Adventure, Meaning. I definitely agree. However, he says many fail to reach these aims because they ignore the shadow side of this path. He details four things - FAIL: Failure, anxiety, instability, loneliness.
We explore many things in this conversation including:
You can buy his book the Fail Safe Solopreneur on Amazon
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