Sadly, many sell their soul for much less than a million dollars, and over a much longer period of time. They sell out by ignoring their intuition in order to fit in or to make a run for the next promotion, by ignoring potentially risky opportunities in order to go for a sure bet, and by strapping themselves with consumer debt to the point that the

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One of the biggest challenges people have when embarking on an unconventional path is disconnecting from extrinsic markers of success and listening to internal motivational cues. On the default path, you can spend an entire career playing other people’s games. At first, people on a pathless path try to fill the lack of extrinsic goals with new ones... See more

For creative people this hits especially hard as social media’s invention of “personal brands,” “influencers,” and the “Creator Economy” turned the few remaining aspects of life that hadn’t yet been marketized into the last ways we could make a living without working for somebody else. Gradually and then suddenly creative people found themselves do... See more

Once your brand gets to a certain size, you can cut out the middleman (book publishers, traditional media, etc.)