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Aspiration, Meaning, & The Traps of Ambition (A Book Review of Agnes Callard's Aspiration)

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Book review on Agnes Callard's "Aspiration" about the philosophical role of aspiration and becoming in a meaningful and good life

To others, I made a bold decision to quit my job and chart a different course in 2017. Yet in my own experience of the event, there was no singular moment or decision made. This disconnect between my own experience and the narrative of bold all-or-nothing leaps has mystified me and driven a lot of my own writing about the process. I thought I was alone in pondering this question until I stumbled upon a small reference to Agnes Callard’s work in a New Yorker article about decision making. Here is that passage: Agnes Callard, a philosopher at the University of Chicago, is skeptical about the ide

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