ambition – Anne Z

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.

Writing, and creating in general, from interest curiosity not a sense of deprivation or needing to make money.

On Eckhart and Heidegger’s concepts of releasement, and what it means in an extremely online era. How recklessness relates to releasement.

Living in the achievement society of late modern life, how do you find meaning? Going beyond ambition, achievement, and affluence.

What would it look like to put down my ambitions for myself? On the culture of affluence and achievement (and ambition)