
Marshall Goldsmith- When Ambition No Longer Cuts It
From The Green Notebook
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The Hungry Ghost
Never place your value as a human being on results. For two reasons, you don't control those results. And two, it doesn't bring long-term happiness. The Buddhist term for this is called the hungry ghost. I'm always eating, but I'm never full. That's an important thing when we get fixated on achievement. An old man sitting in a room surrounded by thousands of uneaten marshmallows said to himself: Where does the story end?
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