How to reclaim your ambition

Recent news stories have suggested that younger workers are opting out of work ambition. Coverage documents their frustration with a limiting job market, dehumanizing hiring processes, and the expectations set by hustle culture. Those frustrations are real, but the constant negative narrative doesn’t help. What we read can amplify our worries, and media coverage claiming a generation is disengaging from work makes it seem like that’s the expected response. And these stories can make us...