Against Ambition

Undeceptions

John Dickson starts season 2 of his Undeceptions podcast beginning with the topic of Ambition with Miroslav Volf. Dickson gives
the warning: "making this episode almost changed my life."It's so helpful for Christians saturated in the Wests culture of performance and productivity.

High performers – athletes, business professionals, artists, and the like – inspire and motivate us. They give us benchmarks to strive for, and show us what sort of a life we might lead if we were the “greatest of all time” in a given field. But is striving to be the “greatest” actually good for us? Or does it do more harm than good?

Source: https://undeceptions.com/podcast/against-ambition/

Image credit: Photo by Jef Willemyns on Unsplash

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