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Our days are spent trying to “get through” tasks, in order to get them “out of the way,” with the result that we live mentally in the future, waiting for when we’ll finally get around to what really matters—and worrying, in the meantime, that we don’t measure up, that we might lack the drive or stamina to keep pace with the speed at which life now seems to move. “The spirit of the times is one of joyless urgency,” writes the essayist Marilynne Robinson, who observes that many of us spend our lives “preparing ourselves and our children to be means to inscrutable ends that are utterly not our own.”
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Right now, women’s expressions of ambition and power seeking are being suppressed by funneling those expressions into the concept of perfectionism, then pathologizing perfectionism ad nauseam; this is one of the most widely propagated implicit drivers of our culture’s sexist agenda. Reinforcing the tempering of women’s expression of power is billed as “finding balance,” an instruction overwhelmingly directed towards women, not men.
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control
Katherine Morgan Schafler
Intrinsic goals, on the other hand, are things we pursue because they are personally meaningful — things like personal growth and learning, building deeper connections with others, and living our values in our day-to-day life.
“Maybe I’ll Never Feel That Motivation Again.”
Sara Wachter-Boettcher
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