What Happened To My Ambition? with Rainesford Stauffer | Crooked Media
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What Happened To My Ambition? with Rainesford Stauffer | Crooked Media
- Women are in the midst of a revolutionary reckoning with our ambitions. We’re not resigning en masse—because who can afford to quit her job in this economy?!—but we are trying to figure out a new set of goals and guidance for our professional lives. Thanks to long-simmering inequality and stubborn sexism, clarified by the pain of the pandemic, our ... See more
from What Comes After Ambition? by elle magazine
Keely Adler and added
- 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’.
from Page Not Found | Framer by Sindhu Shivaprasad
Sindhu Shivaprasad added
Is unbridled ambition a good or a bad thing? I haven’t decided whether the desire for more is a worthwhile pursuit.
Tomas Socolsky added
The problem is, as achievement-subjects, not only do we burn ourselves out, but the meaning and value of our lives is always deferred. Once we have our dream job, the perfect home, a perfectly optimised life – once we are productive enough, efficient enough, successful enough – only then will we arrive at meaning. But just like the fruit that elud
... See morefrom The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play by Alec Stubbs
Andreas Vlach added
- The problem is, as achievement-subjects, not only do we burn ourselves out, but the meaning and value of our lives is always deferred. Once we have our dream job, the perfect home, a perfectly optimised life – once we are productive enough, efficient enough, successful enough – only then will we arrive at meaning. But just like the fruit that elude... See more
from The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play by Alec Stubbs
Brandon Dang added
- As my work-driven identity dissolved, I felt a burning ambition across all facets of life. Instead of a desire to achieve goals that society told me were valuable, I felt a hunger to discover what makes me feel fully alive. Instead of a commitment to “winning” other people’s games, I felt a commitment to design a life that I deeply enjoy inhabiting... See more
from Work, Ambition, and Identity by Sam Sager
Stuart Evans and added
Stuart Evans and added
- The problem is, as achievement-subjects, not only do we burn ourselves out, but the meaning and value of our lives is always deferred. Once we have our dream job, the perfect home, a perfectly optimised life – once we are productive enough, efficient enough, successful enough – only then will we arrive at meaning. But just like the fruit that elude... See more
from The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play by Alec Stubbs
Alex Dobrenko and added