Ambition - An Essay by David Whyte

Ambition is a word that lacks any real ambition. Ambition is frozen desire, the current of a vocational life immobilized and over-concretized to set, unforgiving goals.

Why ‘Follow Your Passion’ Is the World’s Worst Career Advice

The popular "follow your passion" advice has become an overused and generic phrase. Below is another method that may just do the trick in helping people's careers.

Efficiency is the Enemy

If you ever find yourself stressed, overwhelmed, sinking into stasis despite wanting to change, or frustrated when you can’t respond to new opportunities, you need more slack in your life. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it.

There’s no such thing as motivation

But you can still crush that to-do list.

World on Fire

The Future is Here

Horses

AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden.

Measuring excitement in sport - Graham Pollard, 2017

Various aspects of excitement in sport are identified, and one aspect is defined and studied in detail. This aspect is the excitement that can be attributed to ...

Impatience: The Pitfall of Every Ambitious Person

Big splashes don’t happen. Overnight success doesn’t exist. We have to remind ourselves of that whenever we show impatience.

How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models

“We’re not ambitious enough” is easy to post and hard to follow. Here’s a practical tutorial, with prompts.

How to know what you really want and be free from mimetic desire | Psyche Guides

From career choices to new purchases, use René Girard’s mimetic theory to resist the herd and forge your own path in life

How to know what you really want and be free from mimetic desire | Psyche Guides

From career choices to new purchases, use René Girard’s mimetic theory to resist the herd and forge your own path in life

Your Fit. Your Way. | A Mobile App That Makes Motivation Easier | Yes.Fit

The Global Leader in Virtual Races and Fitness Challenges. Interactive, motivating, and fun. Earn medals and other rewards. Get started for free.

The Ambition Project

A guest post by Jason Brennan

Goals Garden - Goals and Habit Tracker on ATProto

Track your daily goals and habits. Build streaks, stay consistent, and achieve your goals!

US senators urge crackdown on wildfire betting amid warnings of arson risk

Experts say growing trend on sites such as Polymarket and Kalshi could motivate people to start fires to win money

It’s the Effort That Counts: The Effect of Self-Control on Goal Progress Perceptions

Does the amount of self-control consumers must exert to choose a goal-consistent action influence their perceptions of goal progress? For example, if you choose to go to the gym when one of your favorite TV shows is on (vs. when nothing interesting is on TV), do you perceive that you have made a differential amount of progress toward your goal, despite completing the exact same workout? In eight studies (N = 7,515), the authors demonstrate that consumers perceive that they have made more progress on their goals when more (vs. less) self-control is required to choose to complete an identical goal-consistent task. This is because when consumers exert more (vs. less) self-control to choose a goal-consistent task over the goal-inconsistent alternatives, they infer higher commitment to the goal. The higher inferred commitment, in turn, leads consumers to perceive that future goal pursuit will be easier. The authors demonstrate this effect across a variety of tasks and means of exerting self-control, as well as with both hypothetical scenarios and real-behavior studies.