we're all in the pursuit of greatness, no?
I sense there is a shift happening where people are realizing that they are channeling an ambitious impulse - the desire to grow and evolve - into dumb goals. Rejecting legible ambitious might be the most ambitious thing you can do.... See more
A shift from legible ambition (my parents can easily brag about me) to illegible ambition (no one, including me
Paul Millerd • Losing Yourself, Ambition, Writing, 40k Books, Surrender | #247
Ambition or escapism?
Is it really ambition or just a form of escapism?
I feel like I’m constantly trying to thread the needle of how I want my life to be without being present. Maybe even writing this is another way I’m trying to excuse myself from actually confronting how I feel.
Everything I want is already written in the stars. Therefore I can
... See moreI think ambition can be a lot more collective and a lot more expansive than it’s given credit for. And I think that when we funnel into this completely work driven, completely output driven striving, we really miss the imaginative or community centered components of it that I think most of us are ambitious about having in our lives in some form or
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