Do You Have Ambition for the Future?

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i don't actually have ambitions for the future, which is such a weird thing to say. I am like a typea person, through and through. And i think this series of pivots that my life has naturally taken, or i've had to en my life, has kind of soured me on that whole way of thinking. It's forced me to kind of think more about now then what's coming. Sometimes we spend a lot of time in our future because we're not satisfied with the present. That's where we go to dream. We can't wait to see what you do next.

Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the host of A Slight Change of Plans.

”I am a type A person through and through. I love having the five-year plan and the ten-year plan, and mapping it all out. By nature, that's what I'm like. And I think the series of pivots that my life has naturally taken, or I've had to take, has kind of soured me on that whole way of thinking. […] Maybe it's also that I'm a more grateful person than I used to be. Like, I feel more gratitude, and so part of my orientation now is, well, how lucky am I that I even stumbled upon something?”

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