Comments on: Our Society of Overachievers: A Superbubble of Wanting to Want Too Much

By: We’re Making It a Great Year | Brian Frank

We’re Making It a Great Year | Brian Frank — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:20:20 +0000

[...] culture has already become very goal-driven in a pernicious way: the numbers and titles are often treated as more valuable than real value. [...]

By: Burying the Best and the Brightest | the Open/Conceptual Studio

Burying the Best and the Brightest | the Open/Conceptual Studio — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:42:44 +0000

[...] been thinking about the pernicious effects of our overachievement society again, this time by way of Philip Delves Broughton (via NYTimes Opinionator), in a post called The [...]

By: Goals Gone Wild | brianfrank.ca

Goals Gone Wild | brianfrank.ca — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:59:58 +0000

[...] and intrinsic ones — i.e. “quantity over quality.” I wrote at length about pernicious cult of achievement… here’s Barry Schwartz speaking about something related, and just yesterday I [...]

By: A Brief Introduction to Practical Wisdom and Moral Virtue | B Frank

A Brief Introduction to Practical Wisdom and Moral Virtue | B Frank — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:23:49 +0000

[...] semi-pop intellectuals. (In fact I linked to Schwartz’s previous TED appearance in a similar-minded post.) I’m absolutely in love with this line of thinking — and the hope of seeing it through [...]

By: Virtues of Idleness | B Frank

Virtues of Idleness | B Frank — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:03:08 +0000

[...] so to speak. Whereas work is not good for its own sake; work without some external utility can be a destructive element in society: it breeds boredom which can lead to vandalism and violence, and it prevents people from learning [...]

By: Social and Creative Capital in London, Orchestra Edition | B Frank

Social and Creative Capital in London, Orchestra Edition | B Frank — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:33:28 +0000

[...] and discipline – not to mention competetiveness (albeit debatable, with mixed positives and negatives); and nobody could reasonably argue that sports aren’t economic engines and huge sources of [...]

By: Preconditions for the Economic Crisis | B Frank

Preconditions for the Economic Crisis | B Frank — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:42:48 +0000

[...] Our Culture of Overachievement — I’ve already dealt with this here. The nut: appearance has wrongly trumped substance: Our society has spent more time and energy on [...]

By: “… and the ideas often just tag along.” | B Frank

“… and the ideas often just tag along.” | B Frank — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:04:42 +0000

[...] Continued from Our Society of Overachievers. [...]