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The age of anti-ambition.
Doing the bare minimum, retiring early and idling for pleasure is increasingly aspirational as a new generation opts out of productivity culture and an unhealthy obsession with success.
It’s great to see more people talking about holistic ambition – a broader understanding of ambition that includes quality of life, not just career success. To live a good life, contribute good ideas, and nurture good relationships... that’s ambitious too.
– @neuranne
Things that reduce the odds of long-term success:
+ Saying yes to too many things.
+ Making excuses.
+ Staying up late.
+ Eating poorly.
+ Checking email first thing in the AM.
+ Working more to fix being busy.
+ Buying things you... See more
nametwitter.comThere’s a phrase making the rounds online: “The more I heal, the less ambitious I become.” I’ve been wondering if its resonance reveals a quiet fatigue with the constant push for more and a longing for lives that are simpler, quieter, and more self-directed. Not smaller in value, but in volume. To me, that’s not regression. That’s freedom.
In Defense of Thinking Small
I’ve concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn’t dollars but the individual people whose lives I’ve touched. I think that’s the way it will work for us all. Don’t worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people. This is my final recommendation:
... See morehbr.org • How Will You Measure Your Life?
Ambition is about the echoes you want to leave reverberating in the world around you. It's about finding the place in The Current where your heart, mind, and gut resonate with creation. Ambition is about living life as an art of devotion to the Process and Pattern, making reality more beautiful with your participation than it would be without it.
River Kenna • Soul-Making Productivity: A Process Manifesto
Let’s talk about Ambition vs. Agency
Ambition is like speed:
• speed = scalar quantity
• has only magnitude
Agency is like velocity:
• velocity = vector quantity
• has both magnitude & direction
It doesn’t... See more
Danielle Vermeer | Teleporttwitter.comBut while the stereotype of ambition is indeed someone like Elon Musk (or Steve Jobs, before that), I don't think you literally need to aim for Mars to stir the heart of sailors. Nor do I think you need to be as abrasive or demanding, as the stereotype implies. That's the balance we've been trying to find at 37signals since its inception: The... See more