Oliver Burkeman | A Contrarian Approach to Setting Your Goals for the New Year
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The Importance of Ambition in Personal Development
A lot of people who overachieve, become celebrities, all sorts of things are struggling to fill some void. I think the person who is content with being ordinary is arguably more psychologically healthy than the person who absolutely needs to pull off these big goals. The idea that you're born as smart as Elon Musk and you can become that is not something people ever want to hear in the world of personal development. And it's amazing what proportion of recent American presidents have had absent fathers.
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