130. Embracing How Our Ambitions Shift and Evolve
Overview
Do you have a hard time allowing your ambitions to shift and change? Do you feel uncomfortable when at times you don’t feel as committed to your ambitions?
These are among the dominant narratives and conventions about success and ambition that I want to challenge, so that we can thrive in our lives and in our work.
Today I want to dig into why evolving ambitions are inevitable, and even desirable, and offer three alternative ways to reframe ambition so it is sustainable over the course of our lives.
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Listen to the full episode to hear:
How the concept of the adjacent possible can help us reframe “mistakes” into shifts in trajectory
Taking cues on evolving your path over time from artists, musicians, and actors
How your values inform the shape of your ambitions, even through major transitions
Why we need to think of ambition as a dial, not an on-off switch
Embracing the idea of a prismatic identity
Resources Mentioned
Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation, Steven Johnson
The Adjacent Possible, Steven Johnson
104. The Benefits of a Portfolio Life: Fulfillment Beyond Work with Christina Wallace
115: Values and Reducing Goal Conflict to Enhance Well-Being with Valerie Tiberius
127. From Academia, to Diplomacy, to Bourbon: Ashley Donahey’s Journey to Entrepreneurship
128. Creating Sustainable Support Structures with Arianna Taboada
129. The Life Brief: The Creative Practice to Create the Life You Really Want with Bonnie Wan
Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House, Jared Cohen
The Creative ACT: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin
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