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What Comes After Ambition?
We are witnessing a shift right now. A stale version of the American Dream is crumbling, breaking apart, and being discarded as a new version emerges. People are widening the narrow roles they’ve been assigned. Many of us are refusing to feel guilty or shameful for not following convention when it comes to success or building family and community.
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helping someone achieve their dreams is not the same thing as achieving your own. Or put another way, making someone else the focus of your ambition is not the same as having a self-centered, work-centered ambition. The two are different. One is selfish, the other is selfless. And lately I’ve been thinking: why is it so difficult—maybe impos
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Koretz believes the reason so many of her clients feel this ambiguous sense of disappointment is because they’ve spent their adulthood so focused on climbing ladders that they feel lost when there
Simone Stolzoff • The Good Enough Job: What We Gain When We Don’t Put Work First
One human resources manager called it the "Great Reflection," wherein people are "taking stock of what they want out of a job, what they want out of employment, and what they want out of their life."