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Pathless path

Pathless Path by Paul Millerd is a book that, as the title suggests encourages you to get off the beaten path. 

What worked for me?

The break down of the journey, what might one encounter, what are the freedoms one experiences and how to make the most it. What I liked about it was that I have experienced almost everything the author talks about during the time I pursued the pathless path. My frustrations, my coming to terms with it, my realising that I need to change my success parameters and finally to the point when I realised what I could do with it. Every single experience of mine resonated - and I feel proud in some way to have undertaken the journey, continue to undertake in some shape or form. This breakdown is something I have not seen anywhere else. 

What did not work for me?

It is a bit too self indulgent - the author talks a lot about himself and moving from a developed country to Asia is well, not exactly off the beaten path considering the hippies did it decades ago. The second thing, the book is fairly repetitive. And then - this is what I dont like - it quotes a lot from other books and authors - the unfamiliar ones are good - but the others are well, just from the circle from the US who talk to each other in TED talks, write and figure in each others books and are almost part of a rarefied social circle. 

Having said that, it is still a good book for someone contemplating to get off the beaten path. 

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