Rainesford Stauffer is a freelance writer and Kentuckian. Lately she's been focusing on how younger generations deal with work and burnout. She's had an aha: that making work and achievement the centerpiece of her life was rooted in the insecurity that she would never be good enough.
"The idea that we’re running behind unless we’re always running toward the next best thing and our next best self doesn’t just bypass the million ways our time is shaped and spent. It limits our ambition.
"We discover new things, people, and places we love. We meet new versions of ourselves, who often come with new needs or new goals. Without pausing to notice when one track is gone and a new one appears, we lose out. We miss opportunities to celebrate milestones or accomplishments that might not fit a social script of achievement but are significant to us. We miss sitting with ourselves when we fall apart, the urge to patch over grief or heartbreak or feeling lost with more churning forward. We miss–I was missing–this, the right now. The only moment we’re ever guaranteed."
Article: There's No Such Thing as Getting Ahead
Video: Rainesford Stauffer’s Brief But Spectacular Take on Rethinking Ambition
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