ambitious women
When others take the path of least resistance and instant gratification...
You take the opposite one of delayed gratification.
It’s pressure that shapes DIAMONDS
Maximize your social skills, finances, and looks.
Take, for example, the ambition to “make your venture-backed startup profitable”: to develop, market, and distribute a product or service that’s never existed before, in a form that’s valuable and accessible enough for large numbers of people to want to pay you for it, in sufficient quantity that your revenue consistently exceeds your costs.
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Gena Gorlin • The Psychological Needs of the Extremely Ambitious
Women are in the midst of a revolutionary reckoning with our ambitions. We’re not resigning en masse—because who can afford to quit her job in this economy?!—but we are trying to figure out a new set of goals and guidance for our professional lives. Thanks to long-simmering inequality and stubborn sexism, clarified by the pain of the pandemic, our ... See more
Ann Friedman • What Comes After Ambition?
But as I spent the holidays reflecting on this “Robin-to-your-Batman” mindset, I found myself facing a grimier, more menacing realization around why powering their agency has felt so much safer and easier than cultivating and motivating my own.
As I ate leftover Persian food on my mom’s antique couch in LA, listening to her 3 dogs shriek and bark in... See more
As I ate leftover Persian food on my mom’s antique couch in LA, listening to her 3 dogs shriek and bark in... See more