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EP #09: (Struggling With) Redefining Success
What does it truly mean, to us, to be successful? And how do our conceptions of success differ depending on the contexts we apply them to? In this week’s episode, we embrace this messy territory, admitting to our own challenges and ongoing journeys to undo and relearn what success really means
In the course of our conversation, it becomes clear that while ‘success’ is often framed as an ideal to work towards, a deeper examination reveals how wildly complex and at times, ludicrous the concept really is. We explore this in our discussion of how we’ve traditionally understood success when it comes to career, intellectual pursuits, fitness, and even hobbies. In an attempt to understand where and how these metrics came into existence, we also share some of our intuitions around how these metrics are continually reinforced today (cough cough @LinkedIn!). One of the more confronting realizations we have here is that being the reflective, critical thinkers that we’d like to think we are, does not necessarily make us immune to these forces - we, probably just like you, still have a lot of work to do.
So, naturally, we arrive at the ultimate crisis-inducing question: what now? As you might expect, we don’t have a clean, complete answer but nevertheless, our episode concludes by mapping out how we can create our own guiding principles for understanding success moving forward.
Episode Breakdown
00:00 - 4:31: Lightbulb Moments
4:32 - 12:23: Creative Lab
12:24 - 14:05: Permission Slip Warm-Up Activity
14:06 - 36:35: How have we understood success in different areas of life? How do we measure it/how have we measured it in the past?
36:36 - 01:00:16: What are ways that we see ‘traditional metrics of success’ being reinforced? What concretely reinforces them?
01:00:17 - 01:16:34: How do we create our own guiding principles for success?
Don’t Be a Stranger!
Subscribe to Mixed Media Minds on whichever platform you listen to us on to catch our weekly episodes!
Check out our Substack and subscribe to our monthly newsletter to stay connected to our Mixed Media Minds pluriverse: https://mixedmediaminds.substack.com!
How do you understand or conceptualize success across different areas of life? Which of those conceptions do you actually subscribe to and which would you like to rethink or unlearn? Let us know what your thoughts are, regarding these questions or today’s episode, by sending us an email at [email protected]!
Sound Credits: see here
References:
Cristina's Instagram
How To Start A Movement (TED Talk)
Alok Menon
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By Sitara Nath and Cristina ŞomcuteanWhat does it truly mean, to us, to be successful? And how do our conceptions of success differ depending on the contexts we apply them to? In this week’s episode, we embrace this messy territory, admitting to our own challenges and ongoing journeys to undo and relearn what success really means
In the course of our conversation, it becomes clear that while ‘success’ is often framed as an ideal to work towards, a deeper examination reveals how wildly complex and at times, ludicrous the concept really is. We explore this in our discussion of how we’ve traditionally understood success when it comes to career, intellectual pursuits, fitness, and even hobbies. In an attempt to understand where and how these metrics came into existence, we also share some of our intuitions around how these metrics are continually reinforced today (cough cough @LinkedIn!). One of the more confronting realizations we have here is that being the reflective, critical thinkers that we’d like to think we are, does not necessarily make us immune to these forces - we, probably just like you, still have a lot of work to do.
So, naturally, we arrive at the ultimate crisis-inducing question: what now? As you might expect, we don’t have a clean, complete answer but nevertheless, our episode concludes by mapping out how we can create our own guiding principles for understanding success moving forward.
Episode Breakdown
00:00 - 4:31: Lightbulb Moments
4:32 - 12:23: Creative Lab
12:24 - 14:05: Permission Slip Warm-Up Activity
14:06 - 36:35: How have we understood success in different areas of life? How do we measure it/how have we measured it in the past?
36:36 - 01:00:16: What are ways that we see ‘traditional metrics of success’ being reinforced? What concretely reinforces them?
01:00:17 - 01:16:34: How do we create our own guiding principles for success?
Don’t Be a Stranger!
Subscribe to Mixed Media Minds on whichever platform you listen to us on to catch our weekly episodes!
Check out our Substack and subscribe to our monthly newsletter to stay connected to our Mixed Media Minds pluriverse: https://mixedmediaminds.substack.com!
How do you understand or conceptualize success across different areas of life? Which of those conceptions do you actually subscribe to and which would you like to rethink or unlearn? Let us know what your thoughts are, regarding these questions or today’s episode, by sending us an email at [email protected]!
Sound Credits: see here
References:
Cristina's Instagram
How To Start A Movement (TED Talk)
Alok Menon