What If “Conventional Success” Is Fleeting Bullshit, And We’re All Still Chasing It?

Seems possible, right?

Good article here from Ron Carucci, who I believe works at some company called Navalent. He might have founded it. I dunno, sue me. I’ll hit you with a pull quote and a screenshot herein. The screenshot is first; it’s not from Carucci, but he borrowed from this Arthur Brooks article in The Atlantic:

Now here’s the pull-quote, which is from Carucci:

Rather than chiding yourself for what you haven’t achieved, or resenting someone for what they have, can you show yourself kindness for even incremental progress? And can you show your perceived rival compassion for whatever it took to achieve what they did? Instead of feeling or trying to entice envy through comparison, a more compassionate response is gratitude — for the privilege of doing the work you do, for the positive…