Fwd: 'I'm Too Lazy and Mediocre to Deserve the Life I Want!'
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Fwd: 'I'm Too Lazy and Mediocre to Deserve the Life I Want!'
He illustrates the point by contrasting a famous 2005 commencement speech by Steve Jobs, in which the Apple founder urges his audience to search relentlessly for work they love, and never to settle for less, with these words, from the essayist Anne Lamott: Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
“My department failed on yet another high-visibility project.” •“I got fired because I couldn’t cut it at that job.” •“I was passed over again for the promotion because I’m not part of the ‘in crowd’ at my company.”
Gerry Valentine • The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World
🧨 THE SPECIFIC WAYS THIS NARRATIVE MANIFESTS PROFESSIONALLY:
- You chronically over-serve clients, audiences, or collaborators, exhausting yourself to ensure indispensability.
- You sabotage visibility opportunities that feel like "luck" rather than "earned" — because unearned recognition feels dangerous.
- You delay launching creative work unless you can
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A lot of social media these days makes me feel like I’m doing it wrong; I’m not going to the right places or wearing the right thing or doing the right workout (or any workout tbh). Sure, it’s kinda an obvious takeaway about a common feeling, but what was less obvious to me is how this week’s contributor Alex Dobrenko characterizes this experience:... See more
always led me to feelings of frustration and failure. “Why can’t I do this simple thing?” In my midfifties, I began to really dissect what was going on. My analysis forced me to face a few facts about myself and this habit.