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A review by tejark333
The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life by Paul Millerd
5.0
In economics, there is a concept called "Hidden Unemployment". Any person not employed to their total capacity would be categorized under this Hidden Unemployment. Keeping aside the economics and capitalism aside for a bit, I strongly feel, this Hidden Unemployment is/should be the way of human living. In earlier times until the industrial revolution, we used to work to ensure our basic necessities and spend the remaining time on our relationships, leisure (which has become the luxury concept now) and recreational activities. We are now prioritizing the unplanned office meetings over the planned dinners/movie outings.
From the time when we built everything around life, we are now fighting very hard to equate work and life in the name of work-life balance. How this transformation has happened very quickly? Well, there are many reasons. Consciously or subconsciously the author had shed light on them in the first part of this book in the name of the Traditional path in the first half of the book. Later he went ahead to introduce the alternative way "The Pathless Path".
This may not make us immediately switch to the pathless path but kind of gives a perspective of treating work as just work and improves our relationship with work as well as life.
From the time when we built everything around life, we are now fighting very hard to equate work and life in the name of work-life balance. How this transformation has happened very quickly? Well, there are many reasons. Consciously or subconsciously the author had shed light on them in the first part of this book in the name of the Traditional path in the first half of the book. Later he went ahead to introduce the alternative way "The Pathless Path".
This may not make us immediately switch to the pathless path but kind of gives a perspective of treating work as just work and improves our relationship with work as well as life.