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This Will Change the Way You Think About Ambition
Prioritizing achievement is likely your default. If you want to prioritize something else like peace or freedom, you need to fully commit to it even when (not if, when) it looks and feels different or uncomfortable.
Emily Ballesteros • The Cure For Burnout: Build Better Habits, Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life
I know this is controversial talk and antithetical to the success mantras of the metric obsessed, performative, materialistic, linear, Key Performance Indicator driven world we live in, but someone needs to play the role of the annoying child who questions lazily adhered to and potentially harmful conventions, if only to stress-test them. I mean, w... See more
Thomas J Bevan • On New Year's Resolutions
Illegible ambition is personal, hard if not impossible to describe to others, and might not lead anywhere impressive, sometimes for years. But it is also immensely powerful. Illegible ambition is about connecting to who we really are and doing work in a state that friend and fellow internet weirdo David Perell perfectly describes as “hearts on fire... See more
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
Do we really need to say that the only viable way for making a difference in the world has to be from this place of deficit? Do we all have to be what psychologists call “insecure overachievers” who are doing lots of things in the world but doing them fundamentally to fill a void or plug a hole?
So where I’m headed with all of this is to try to salv... See more
So where I’m headed with all of this is to try to salv... See more
Opinion | Burned Out? Start Here.
Striving is fine, as long as it’s tempered by the realization that, in an entropic universe, the final outcome is out of your control. If you don’t waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. When you are wisely ambitious, you do everything you can to succeed, but you are not attached t
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