Upon conclusion of business school, he applied to various consulting companies and also McKinsey rejected him. The reality is that non-duality may appear totally strange, confusing, and even nonsensical to our minds at first. You can experiment with your work and your life until you stumble into a virtuous cycle that helps you continue to move in a positive direction. When we’ve tried all the healing practices, gone to all the retreats, done the detoxes, read all the books, taken tons of courses (or maybe even just the thought of doing this all feels “off”), what next? Yet many look at that possibility and say, “no thanks,” because it means discomfort, uncertainty, and a higher risk of failure.

Non-duality is very much a transcendent path, but at the same time, it’s not exempt from traps such as spiritual bypassing and spiritual egotism. College graduates raised on the internet looked around, collectively said, "fuck this," and got jobs they could work from anywhere. Paul takes a leap of faith and follows Angie to Thailand but he emphasizes existing with the fears of no money, no stability and not having the answers to these prbolems. The “you” that’s trying to earn, achieve or “get it” in the first place is the very obstacle in the way!Enough is seeing a clear opportunity that will increase my earnings in the short‑term, but knowing that saying “no” will open me up to things that might be even more valuable in ways that are hard to understand. The other path is the “way of wonderment,” when we are faced with moments of undeniable awe and inspiration.

The author interviewed multiple notable people in his book and found that each person worked hard to bring forth what was inside them - they worked hard to protect their time to focus on what mattered. By advocating people to prototype their passion, Millerd is practicing both first principles thinking and deliberate practice. Discover the dark history of the island as you solve puzzles in ancient ruins and unearth long-forgotten lore.

Often, the combination of deep knowledge and practice evokes thoughts of an expert or master, someone who “practices one kick ten thousand times” as Bruce Lee once said.

The deeper we look through practices such as meditation, the more vividly we discover that there is no solid and unchanging sense of “me” within us. However, by understanding that everything, in the words of Thich Nhat Hanh, “ inter-is”– or everything is dependant on everything else – we can experience less duality and less division within us. The intent is to shift our focus on realizing our deep desires to work on things that matter and bring forth what is inside them.When making life changes overcoming the challenges of discomfort of not knowing what will happen will reveal themselves. My challenge is exactly this – I’ve experienced oneness, no self, emptiness, but I struggle to reconcile it with day to day living. The main takeaway is that our current conception of work and its place in our life is not only not the way it’s always been, but is relatively new on the scale of human history, and even now there are many different ways to think about work. It’s like when you look out at the ocean, you see hundreds, thousands of waves, of all shapes and sizes, which seem to be very separate from each other.