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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Join us for a compelling conversation with Paul Millerd, author of The Pathless Path. In this episode, Paul shares his insights on finding yourself in the wrong life and the real work of figuring out how to live. Discover his journey through experiments, travels, and lessons learned, as he pieces together a set of principles to guide him from unfulfilled to the good life.

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0:00.0	As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting
0:04.6	some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical
0:09.4	strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve
0:14.4	personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get
0:18.5	recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook.
0:24.5	What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash LifePurpose. Again, that's
0:28.9	unmistakablecreative.com slash life purpose.
0:32.8	You're often like seeing the final product. You stumble upon someone and like you, I'm not super
0:39.6	familiar with your work, but I've dug in a little bit. It'd be very easy for me to think
0:45.2	like you arrived at this now. I'm smart enough for my own journey to know that you probably
0:50.2	been headed in this direction and creating awesome stuff now because you started probably
0:56.0	decades ago in whatever form that took. But people really just want to be saved. People want
1:02.7	an easy answer. This is why they gravitate to, I just want to follow the Tim Ferriss playbook,
1:08.1	is because they don't want to figure out their own path. They just want
1:11.5	the shortcut. They want to arrive. But anyone that finds work worth doing realizes that playing
1:18.6	a long game is actually what's fun. There never is any arrival. You might get to a higher
1:25.2	level of like, oh, okay, I can stay on this path a little longer.
1:30.0	I don't ever expect to arrive, nor do I want to, because that would mean I would stop having fun.
1:40.5	I'm Sreeny Rao, and this is the unmistakable creative podcast, where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who've started movements, built thriving businesses, written bestselling books, and created insanely interesting art. For more, check out our 500 episode archive at UnmistakableCreative.com.
2:02.5	Paul, welcome to the Unmistakable Creativereative.com. Paul, welcome to The Unmistakable Creative.
2:04.5	Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.
2:06.4	Excited to be here.
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