BRUTALITIES author Margo Steines on leaving the house to switch into her creative brain and becoming more ambitious in her career since becoming a parent
I love the number of guests here who say parenting has made them *more* professionally ambitious, not less. It really undercuts so many cultural narratives in a wonderful way!
Okay, I am fully obsessed with this series. Seconding Katharine, I am so drawn to this idea of parenting enhancing professional ambition. I love what that might say about how parenting can reorient your ambitions toward interdependency—with your children/family, values, work, and so on.
thank you for this! I’ve been thinking a ton lately about exactly what you name here—the relationship between ambition and interdependency, and how we can value care while also valuing paid labor and the sense of achievement that comes with that kind of visible, paid labor
I love the number of guests here who say parenting has made them *more* professionally ambitious, not less. It really undercuts so many cultural narratives in a wonderful way!
Leaving the house…probably something I need to adopt! Thanks for the perspective.
it honestly makes such a difference for me! one focused hour outside the house is often better for me than a whole day wandering around my house!
Okay, I am fully obsessed with this series. Seconding Katharine, I am so drawn to this idea of parenting enhancing professional ambition. I love what that might say about how parenting can reorient your ambitions toward interdependency—with your children/family, values, work, and so on.
thank you for this! I’ve been thinking a ton lately about exactly what you name here—the relationship between ambition and interdependency, and how we can value care while also valuing paid labor and the sense of achievement that comes with that kind of visible, paid labor