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Iona Morton's avatar

Really appreciate these rumination on ambition, thanks for sharing Rosie. As well as the article from Leona Godin linked at the end. As someone who works in disability inclusion, without experiencing a disability myself I feel combatting ableist language is a learning journey I am continually on

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Julie K's avatar

With everything happening in the world, "ambition" as we've known it is likely speeding toward relic status. The US took the drug more than most and look how that's turning out.

Why can't the pursuit of perfect garden watering or learning to play piano be considered a worthy ambition? Due to the lack of external measurements and validation?

How many brilliant projects have we all delivered that didn't end up quite the way we envisioned?

There's a Bob Dylan quote that goes something like "a man (yeah, a man) is a success if he wakes up in the morning, goes to bed at night and in between does what he wanted to do."

If it's delivering a deck, great. If it's watering a garden, great.

I'm blessed to know people very broadly across the spectrum of "success." Life satisfaction does not exactly align with money and status the way we've convinced ourselves it does, but you do eat at far better restaurants.

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