2934: Selling My Time Too Cheap: How Full-Time Year-Round Work Blinds Us To The Joys of Life by Paul Millerd

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 2934: Paul Millerd explores how the societal default of full-time, year-round employment often blinds us to life’s more meaningful experiences. Sharing his journey from corporate consultant to self-employed, he reveals the hidden costs of trading endless hours for stability and questions the assumptions that keep many people from reclaiming their time and rediscovering genuine fulfillment. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://pmillerd.com/time/ Quotes to ponder: "Those moments where you’ve had enough space and time to connect to yourself are priceless." "What we bought into was a silent conspiracy. One where as long as we remained employed, we could pretend that we had it figured out." "If I had to plant a piece of wisdom in the brain of my younger self it would simply be to tell him that a different state of being is possible." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.4	blinds us to the joys of life by Paul Millard of p.miller.com.
1:13.9	I sold my time at a bargain and did so for too long because I did not have any way to fully
1:20.6	understand and value the benefits of not doing such a thing. This is the case for far too many
1:27.1	people in today's world, and this
1:29.2	state of affairs is only maintained because we have collectively agreed that indefinite full-time,
1:36.3	indefinite employment from the approximate ages of 22 to 65 is the only reasonable way to live. Over and over again, when people take a step away
1:48.8	from such an existence, they report that they were duped. Things were not as scary as they were
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