Friday Forward - Ambition Recession
The busier and more ambitious we get, the more protective and intentional we become of our time—but sometimes it’s too much. Ambition shouldn’t override opportunity.
Scott Belsky • The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
It’s time to get ambitious, not just “visionary.” From an organizational perspective, an ambition specifies a superordinate goal: one not subordinate to the organization (like a vision is), but larger than it. It’s a superordinate goal that transcends the organization itself in three ways. First, it’s more significant than what the organization doe
... See moreUmair Haque • Betterness: Economics for Humans (Kindle Single)
The popular narrative of ambition defines it as coming from a place of scarcity, and that leads to guilt over seeming thankless or wanting more than we have. True ambition ideally comes from a place of abundance, which means being ambitious in ‘doing’ and ‘being’ but being content in ‘having’.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • Page Not Found | Framer
The danger for high-achieving people is that they’ll unconsciously allocate their resources to activities that yield the most immediate, tangible accomplishments. This is often in their careers, as this domain of their life provides the most concrete evidence that they are moving forward. They ship a product, finish a design, help a patient, close
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always have goals to achieve.
Ben Hunt • Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion
And I think that’s one of our enduring understandings of what ambition has to be something massive, something that rules your life and every decision you make, something that never stops burning, and crucially, something that somehow lands people in this mystical land of perfect contentment. If you’ve ever known someone whose primary attribute is a
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