Brainstorming Week Twelve

• Someone is exhausted, clearly. Mentally and physically.
• They needed to accomplish something specific by a certain date?
• Succeeding in (or committing to) this has come at some cost.
• Workaholism?
• Procrastination?
• OCD?
• The costs of ambition.
• That THING that won’t ever let you be content with a normal life.
• What is that thing? Where does it come from?
• When can you stop chasing it?
• Can you ever?
• You eventually succeed because you make it your life’s work; you never relent.
• But what kind of life is that?
• And when you do finally succeed, how will you continue without the need for urgency?
• Will the work still be vital to you when it’s banal?
• “Familiarity breeds contempt.” Does success?
• Once the work isn’t everything, how will you learn balance?
• Maybe this is a story about someone who unknowingly (or knowingly) self-sabotages so that the chase is always the single most urgent thing—in this way, they will never have to contend with themselves.