Reimagining Work & Taking the Unconventional Path | feat. Paul Millerd (Ex-McKinsey, Ex-BCG)

Utopia is Now

Paul Millerd is a Curious Human & Solopreneur, Writer, Host of the Reimagine Work Podcast, Teacher at Strategy U, Independent Consultant and Adviser (for companies like VIVO, Wrangler, Russel Reynolds Associates, Good Jobs Associates among many others), and a Career Coach for people who carve their own paths beyond the default path.

In his past life, Paul worked for companies like General Electric, McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, and studied at the University of Connecticut and MIT.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

4:00 - Why did Paul leave BCG & McKinsey to live a Pathless Path?

8:05 - What path should you take in life?

11:43 - Management Consulting & what made Paul leave it?

16:30 - Paul coaches Shashwat over his career dilemma

20:33 - What do work & career REALLY mean?

30:59 - The false dichotomy of Work-Life Balance

33:58 - Traditional vs Unconventional Lifepaths

39:20 - How to embrace your weirdness and follow your heart?

46:15 - What does Paul's life look like right now?

49:58 - Philosophy of Life: Work vs Leisure

54:57 - Future of Work

58:06 - Bridging the gap between Education & Work

01:05:44 - How to find your life path?

01:09:47 - Do we owe any responsibility to our economy to continue traditional work?

01:11:48 - Paul's views on Utopias

Mentioned in this Episode:

1. Alan Watts was a British writer, speaker & philosopher
2. Roman Krznaric is an Australian public philosopher
3. Venkatesh Rao is an Indian-American author and consultant
4. Peter Albert David Singer AC is an Australian moral philosopher
5. John Rawls was an American political philosopher in the liberal tradition
6. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece
7. Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy
8. Marcus Aurelius was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher
9. David J. Deming is an American Economist and Professor
10. Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher
11. Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature
12. Ryan Bourne is a British Economist and Author who works at Cato Institute

Credits

Art Work: The Road Not Taken - Michael Cook

Music Credits: A Journey Through The Universe – Lesion X