Tag: achievement society
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Day 434 of 1000: Achievement Minimalism
Seeking contentment with the life I have rather than continuing to pursue more social contacts, more money, more external validation.
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Day 428 of 1000: Climbing a Mountain vs Chilling at Basecamp
We’re always training for something, writes Peter Sloterdijk in You Must Change Your Life. Are you training for chilling in basecamp or climbing a mountain?
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Day 392 of 1000: Fantasy vs Imagination in Crafting a Life
Fantasy is a creation of the inward-turned ego; imagination connects you with the world of reality.
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Day 333 of 1000: My Skull-Sized Queendom
One-third of the way through my 1000-day project, which might be about reinvention and might not, I reflect on swimming in the waters of the achievement society.
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Day 313 of 1000: Aspiration as an Alternative to Ambition
Philosopher Agnes Callard contrasts ambition and aspiration. Ambition seeks understood goals. Aspiration seeks new values.
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Day 208 of 1000: Seeking boredom in 2026
Walter Benjamin’s “dream bird” of boredom which “hatches the egg of experience.” What that means and how Byung-Chul Han reformulated the idea.
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DAy 155 of 1000: Seeking releasement
On Eckhart and Heidegger’s concepts of releasement, and what it means in an extremely online era. How recklessness relates to releasement.
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Day 93 of 1000: Finding meaning In the achievement society
Living in the achievement society of late modern life, how do you find meaning? Going beyond ambition, achievement, and affluence.