The Pitfalls of Excessive Ambition: A Reflection on Self-Sabotage
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Summary
The article discusses the tendency to idealize projects in one's mind, leading to self-sabotage through excessive ambition.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledIn this prelapsarian state, the work is flawless because it is nothing: a ghost of pure potential that haunts the creator with its impossible beauty.
We become curators of imaginary museums, we craft elaborate shrines to our unrealized projects…
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