should we have more humble ambitions?

Teenager Therapy

Astrolescence & Joy Coalition

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Do you feel pressured to fall into a lucrative career? The need to dream big and reach greater heights than everyone else in your family? The constant pressure to do more and be better. In this episode, we talk about the annoying stress of feeling like we're not doing enough. The feeling of believing we should have bigger dreams instead of settling for what makes us happy.

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0:00.0	I'm Kayla.
0:10.0	Hi everyone, welcome back to Teenager Therapy. I'm Gayao. I'm Thomas. I'm Kayla.
0:14.8	Sometimes I feel like mediocre dreams are kind of embarrassing. In a way, like, I don't
0:21.4	exactly know how to explain it, but there are times where I think, damn, I see people that are
0:27.2	really successful and they have a successful career. They're one of the best at whatever skill
0:32.4	they were good at, right? They're one of the best people in the industry in their little market,
0:37.3	whatever. And then I see that they're not like millionaires or they're not living in a huge
0:43.9	mansion or, you know, they just live like kind of in a regular home, maybe in a modest apartment.
0:48.5	And it just makes me think, like, damn, why does that feel like not enough? I feel that unless
0:59.6	I'm super mega rich and just ultra successful is just not enough, you know, like these dreams
1:06.5	aren't big enough. Yeah. I was talking about it with Kayla that it feels like everybody has to
1:14.8	have these really big ambitions in life. And if you have an ambition, like, oh, well, I just want
1:21.9	to get a house and have a family. It doesn't sound right. It sounds like you should be doing more
1:31.0	because everybody is doing more. And especially on TikTok, I think it's like people are putting out
1:37.5	these manifestations like, oh, you're going to become a millionaire. You're going to become this
1:42.2	like top model, whatever. And it's just we all aspire to be such big things that how much of it is
1:53.8	really us. And I just want people to push on. Yeah. And I feel like a lot of it is just, I mean,
2:02.9	it feels like it started since high school really. You know, you set these expectations for yourself
2:09.0	without meaning to maybe. And then other people see what you're doing. So then they expect that
2:14.8	of you or even more than the cycle just continues like onto college. And it just feels like you can never
2:22.8	go back. You just always have to be going forward and forward and forward. And I think, I mean,
2:28.6	even today, I was sort of thinking about this. And one of my classes, some people talk to alumni
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