In the achievement society, we suffer from an internalised pressure to achieve – to do more, to be more, to have more. Whether we are aware of it or not, we have internalised the capitalist work ethic to the degree that our successes and failures weigh heavily on our individual shoulders. The primary result of the achievement society is burnout – t

The desire to be better than can choke off the simple desire to be.

You see, from a young age you’ve been sold a lie. That lie is that you have to be good at everything in order to be ‘good enough’. When you were at school and getting that report card, where was the focus: on the subjects you were great at or the ones that ‘need work’? If you got private tuition was it for subjects at which you were amazing or the