Re:‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special over Being Happy
by paganel on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:01AM
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> Wanting to be especially good at something and recognised for it seems like a pretty basic human need to me
You would be surprised. I for one I know I don't want to be "especially good at anything", I've started calling this recently "the George Costanza-way of looking at life", when I was younger I was calling it after a very great novel I had read as a teenager, Musil's "The Man Without Qualities" [1]
You would be surprised. I for one I know I don't want to be "especially good at anything", I've started calling this recently "the George Costanza-way of looking at life", when I was younger I was calling it after a very great novel I had read as a teenager, Musil's "The Man Without Qualities" [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_Qualities