Tag: ambition

We’re taught that failure is the price of ambition, but psychologists studying explanatory style found that what happens after a setback depends partly on the story a person tells themselves about it: those who see failure as permanent and personal are more likely to become helpless, while those who treat it as temporary and specific are more likely to keep going.
Nobody talks about why middle class habits — the overscheduled weekends, the obsessive home improvement, the constant low-grade planning for a future that never quite arrives — aren’t ambition, they’re the anxiety of people who grew up close enough to precarity to remember it, and have been quietly running from that memory ever since

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