Most ambitious people I know are mentally cooked, by the combination of infinite optionality and infinite comparison.
They’re torn between climbing the corporate ladder, launching a startup, becoming a solopreneur, buying an SMB, moving to NYC, moving to London, moving to Dubai, staying close to family, optimizing for money, optimizing for freedom, optimizing for status, optimizing for peace.
Then they open TikTok and see some 22yo flying business class like it’s nothing, or casually spending their monthly salary at a beach club.
The issue is not just envy. It’s the feeling that there are 10,000 possible lives available, every one has someone younger apparently winning at it, and somehow you might be choosing the wrong one.
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