Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Paul Millard. He's a strategy consultant,

author and a podcaster. The old stories we were told about success and happiness no longer apply.

We don't have to wear a suit or go to an office or have a job for life. But do we even need success?

Is there a simpler route to being happy? Paul has spent the last five years trying to find out.

Expect to learn why the road between success and happiness might have a shortcut.

How optimizing for freedom gave Paul everything he wanted from his life. Why the ancient Greek word for

leisure tells us a lot about the modern world. Why following a default path is dangerous. Why

unplaning your workday might make you happier. And much more. This is a conversation that I've been

having so much with my friends recently. Out here in Austin, people that are playing with this

tension between the fact that they want to achieve things worldly successes. But they kind of get

the sense that by working so hard, they're making themselves miserable and the goal is to be happy

and they're making themselves miserable in the pursuit of getting success, which is the thing that's

supposed to make them happy. And it's pretty prevalent. I really, really appreciate it. This conversation

with Paul, I also get to talk about the three-minute Monday newsletter and something that I came up with

on there, which I really hope you enjoy. If you do want to sign up to that, you can go and get

signed up for free by going to chriswalex.com slash books. And it will give you my free reading list,

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