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Guardian

Guardian

‘Everything we were taught about success is wrong’: how to find true fulfilment in your life and career

Guardian
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After Stanford University , I’d moved to New York to work at Google but I was depressed, anxious.

When I realised that many brilliant and accomplished people were also secretly miserable, I looked for a terminology to describe this.

So I came up with my own: the underfulfilled overachiever, or UFOA .

This describes a constant striver who is living a greatonpaper life, yet feels disconnected from work, life and self.

The goal is not to permanently relocate but to find out whether you want to continue exploring that path.

Success is in finding what’s true, not in proving your original theory correct.

The closest thing I have to a personal motto is a quote from Carl Jung : “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are”.

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52

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41

Neutral language

51

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

37

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not offensive

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not hateful

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Time-value

long-living

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