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When wisdom kills ambition

My partner wants me to fight harder for my promotion but I keep thinking about how arbitrary workplace hierarchies are and I'm losing motivation for things that used to drive me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Insight into the constructed nature of social systems can undermine motivation to participate in competitive structures.

Ideas that help explain it
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