Podcast
10% Happier with Dan Harris
It was a personal journey and reflection on the author's own struggles with building community and challenging the American ideal of success. It was written as the author was wrestling with these questions and was an attempt to share her findings and experiences with others.
I can imagine you're thinking asshole, I wrote a whole book about this. Can you ask me that question?
— Episode: Rethinking Success | Mia Birdsong
Episode: Rethinking Success | Mia Birdsong
It was a personal journey and reflection on the author's own struggles with building community and challenging the American ideal of success. It was written as the author was wrestling with these questions and was an attempt to share her findings and experiences with others.
I can imagine you're thinking asshole, I wrote a whole book about this. Can you ask me that question?
And for me, it was really that I had a bunch of questions, and I was struggling with something. And I wanted to share the perspectives and answers and information that I was getting as I was struggling.
So I learned a lot of things, I learned that, you know, kind of unsurprisingly, the American ideal of what success is, is a very isolating one.
And I think that part of it is, again, in the context of capitalism, we have to provide labor in order to earn this made up thing called money, so that we can get our basic needs met.
We don't know unless we try. And we've also done a lot of hard things.
