Losing Yourself, Ambition, Writing, 40k Books, Surrender | #247
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Losing Yourself, Ambition, Writing, 40k Books, Surrender | #247
Aiming high also means that the payoff is so far away that your life may not provide you with the steady diet of meaning and gratification that comes from doing work that fits and expresses who you really are.
William Bridges • Transitions (40th Anniversary Edition): Making Sense of Life's Changes
All accomplishments came at someone else's expense. The corporate world fuels this non-zero-sum anxiety: if others are working late in the office, you convince yourself to stay late too. When others get promoted “ahead” of you, you feel insecure and envious because you think it means you aren’t good enough. But when you find a path that is uniquely
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There is a... relief... in admitting that your ambition is no longer that useful. I’ve wasted a lot of energy on personal ambition. But achievement never assuaged a feeling that my work isn’t necessary. The world may not need another thing, but it does need another person who derives value from elevating others. I’ve learned that I’d rather be forg... See more
Rosie Spinks • It’s Time to Replace Ambition with Adaptation
Since the beginning of time, the answer to “What do you do?” could be answered with one word.
Finance. Sales. Education.
But today, most jobs exist in liminal spaces: Kind of like this but also not quite that.
It may have been fair to think that any explanation longer than a one-word, universally understood, job title was just an attempt to l
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