ambition as a fingerprint - by Isabel - Mind Mine

1) I recently wrote about how crushes are often just misplaced ambition, and I have more to say on the topic. 2) I had an incredible conversation about success and motivation with two friends the other night. One of them identified her personal ambition—something she hadn’t crystallized until that conversation. It made me think: why don’t more of us know what we want? Why is it so hard to crisply articulate our definition of success? The conversation began with me explaining my decision to focus full time on writing. I described how the traditional “ambition track” did not feel right to me, no matter how much I tried to convince myself it did, and that I’d rather try hard at this (writing) and fail than do the generically ambitious thing and always wonder. I explained how I don’t believe in objective right or wrong career decisions, and how it’s probably unwise to trust anyone who gives you instructive career advice, because the only person who can give you the “right” answer is you. T

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