Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition

Re:Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition by reactordev on Thursday December 28, 2023 @01:03PM (#38796349)

I love the bit about chasing all paths until you no longer enjoy any of it. That’s classic burnout. Also, while reading it struck me that you called out the fact that you were setting goals to impress other people because that’s what you were trained to do, since childhood. Make parents/teachers/boss happy by meeting the goals. When tasked with coming up with your own, you thought “what would they like?”.

I would highly, highly, recommend anyone interested in video games to play The Beginners Guide as it tackles this very issue. Your motives. “Letting other people set your success criteria” isn’t the answer. The real answer is “what does success look like to you?”

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Re:Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition by appplication on Thursday December 28, 2023 @01:31PM (#38796754)

I knew nothing about out this game, but how you described it made me think of The Stanley Parable. And looking of up, of course, it’s the same creator. That gave a younger me a rather sticky existential crisis, so perhaps caveat emptor.

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Re:Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition by reactordev on Thursday December 28, 2023 @02:55PM (#38797833)

Perhaps but if you’re just interested in the message, there are play throughs…

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Re:Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition by friendlynokill on Thursday December 28, 2023 @09:31PM (#38801205)

Thanks for the recommendation, just grabbed it on sale

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