I can relate to this! This is something I’ve spent a lot of time on. Many of the things I thought I cared about were things that I discovered doesn’t matter at all. I took them for granted without questioning why that was. Work culture is fascinating.
It's still evolving! When examined retrospectively, many of what I thought were my opinions were based on fears of how colleagues and leadership perceived me in my previous company. From the perspective of a good worker, when you take their money, you're also expected to conform and not rock the boat.
Love the Miro with personal achievements / ambitions. As a product person had a huge aha moment - I am still journaling this by hand. This view makes for such a great personal story board.
Hi Kate, I read Paul's book too and loved it, I resonated with a lot of the stages in your journey exiting a corporate job to go solo, although I took a year-long sabbatical before embarking on a new "pathless path". It's nice to see the details of your thinking on how you made the leap, I know you post mostly about product growth, but I'd love to read more periodic posts like this about your journey too. Thanks for sharing.
Kate this is incredible. I'm currently working on a workbook for the book, want to help?!
Paul, thank you! It would be my pleasure to contribute to the things you're building, let's discuss it in DM 🙌
I absolutely love this Kate - I think the way you frame the psychological uncertainty - and show the work you've done to embrace it is incredible.
Can't wait to see your success on this path - very inspiring to me too!
Thanks! That means a lot 🙏 Will try to share more stuff like that along the path — and hope the right definition of success comes one day ✨
> Searching for “what I care about the most”
I can relate to this! This is something I’ve spent a lot of time on. Many of the things I thought I cared about were things that I discovered doesn’t matter at all. I took them for granted without questioning why that was. Work culture is fascinating.
would be very curious to here how your definition of "what I care about the most" transformed and evolved! I'm on my way 😉
It's still evolving! When examined retrospectively, many of what I thought were my opinions were based on fears of how colleagues and leadership perceived me in my previous company. From the perspective of a good worker, when you take their money, you're also expected to conform and not rock the boat.
I'm a software developer, so several other things I've gradually had to unlearn fall under what Louie Bacaj calls [Expensive Baggage](https://newsletter.memesmotivations.com/p/m-and-ms-expensive-baggage).
Love the Miro with personal achievements / ambitions. As a product person had a huge aha moment - I am still journaling this by hand. This view makes for such a great personal story board.
Hi Kate, I read Paul's book too and loved it, I resonated with a lot of the stages in your journey exiting a corporate job to go solo, although I took a year-long sabbatical before embarking on a new "pathless path". It's nice to see the details of your thinking on how you made the leap, I know you post mostly about product growth, but I'd love to read more periodic posts like this about your journey too. Thanks for sharing.