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When career ambition becomes existential avoidance

I work 60 hours a week climbing a career ladder that leads nowhere I actually want to go but stopping feels like dying.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Busyness and achievement become ways to avoid confronting the fundamental questions of meaning and mortality.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Heidegger's being-toward-death?”

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