Metadata
- Author: Benn Stancil
- Full Title:: Ambition, Then and Now
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Career Tips,
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/ambition-then-and-now
- Finished date:: 2024-06-29
Highlights
Rather than yelling at her support team, Korey should’ve been focused on figuring out why Away was getting 4,000 customer service requests a day. (View Highlight)
what was Korey still chasing? Why did Away need to raise another $100 million? Why did it need 50 new stores and to build “a community” for people who bought suitcases? (View Highlight)
We don’t value people by where they are. We value them in the same way we value our companies—by how fast they’re rising. (View Highlight)
Standing on the shore, your old pond—the pond where you did your life’s work, in which nothing seemed more important than being a big fish—suddenly looks like all the other ponds you used to care so little about. It looks distant; foreign; trivial. From that vantage point, you don’t mourn leaving it; you mourn having spent so much time there. (View Highlight)
You can manufacture ambition. (View Highlight)
Whatever we imagine that existential ambition will be then, we we can make it our day-to-day ambition now, but not without sacrificing our current idols. Because there will be a moment when all have to ask ourselves if we got what we wanted from this life, and the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us he’d come for us after we die, and not when we’re still living. (View Highlight)