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.

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

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