Ambition: How we manage success and failure throughout our lives (1992)

Re:Ambition: How we manage success and failure throughout ou... by mangeletti on Monday January 25, 2016 @11:06AM (#10967900)

Wow, my heart sank when I read this comment.

The frustrating reality of life...

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Re:Ambition: How we manage success and failure throughout ou... by branchless on Monday January 25, 2016 @11:39AM (#10968131)

Define success. It's impossible for everyone to be way above average. Is it so bad to be a jack of all trades? A good husband, good father and good community member, instead of world domination of some e-commerce area that would have happened anyway?

I'm not saying give up, I'm just saying if we were all Steve Jobs (not to pick on him I've no idea if he was/was not a "good" person) it would be a mad world.

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Re:Ambition: How we manage success and failure throughout ou... by cryoshon on Monday January 25, 2016 @02:46PM (#10969430)

A dark thought: today we call a jack of all trades unemployed. Illusions of polycompetency are really just multiple specializations when in a business context.

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