Maricella Herrera

Many of us spend our lives pursuing private acceptance through external success. But no matter the award or honor, our inner doubts will remain. True acceptance comes from inside us. It takes asking ourselves challenging questions like: What do I want from my work? What’s most important about it to me ? How would I create my work differently if I p... See more

On a podcast I recently listened to the question was posed: “Can ambition be virtuous?”

And I agree with the host guiding the conversation: it can’t. Ambition is inherently selfish.

Ambition requires you to have unhealthy priorities. I have seen it again and again. In myself and others. Ambition requires you to sacrifice the things that matter most... See more

What remains scarce, and therefore valuable, isn’t more information. It’s wisdom. Not as some mystical abstraction, but as a practical capacity: the integration of multiple ways of knowing, propositional, embodied, relational, and intuitive, into right action. Not just how to think. How to be . How to relate. How to act from alignment in a world of... See more

A superpower, meanwhile, is your native way of engaging with the world to create some change. It’s a pattern of transformation you produce across contexts. Maybe you turn ambiguity into clarity, or stagnation into energy, or conflict into trust, or isolation into connection.

One way to spot it is with an X → Y frame: what’s the “before” state you th... See more