
Is Everyone Succeeding Without Me?

I started to reflect on my own trajectory with fear that it didn’t mirror my ambition, work ethic, or deep care about the role of work in a life. Had I pointed my ambition in the wrong direction? What did I have to show for all my effort? Had I made some irreversible, unforced error with my career? How much money had I left on the table? Would the... See more
Brie Wolfson • Flounder Mode
Before I worked with the therapist, I never really heard from anyone that I am valuable just the way I am, just because I exist. I probably heard something like that in spiritual circles and thought: ‘yeah, yeah, whatever’. It never felt true, especially in the world of capitalism, academia, relentless competition in which we have to prove our
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