Paradox

About Paradox

Four hours of work per week, feet in the water in Bali, sipping cocktails and celebrating retirement at 32 by the beach... A Lamborghini, a Rolex, and financial abundance... Is that really what ambition is all about? For Paradox, living one's true ambition is not the fantastical pursuit of a passion where everything becomes easy and pleasant. A happiness that the ancient Greeks called Hedonism, the quest for absolute pleasure and the fantasy of a life without suffering.

For Paradox, living one's true ambition means striving for eudaimonism (which has its roots in Socrates' Daemon, mentioned earlier), a happiness based on meaning, balance, and accomplishments. Living your ambition means choosing the challenge that makes sense to you. It means embracing both pleasure and suffering along the way.

It is about having the courage to express our uniqueness. According to Robert Greene, we are all unique: no one else in the world, across the ages, has the same DNA sequence as us. To this biological aspect, add our environment and experiences: no one in the world, even twins, has the same life experience as another individual. It is this unique mix of experiences, aspirations, values, knowledge, and resources that characterizes us and ensures that no one will EVER make a contribution to the world similar to ours.

Among the greatest, this inner whisper, this flame that drives them to express their genius, makes more noise than all the external injunctions, pushing them to move heaven and earth to fulfill their ambitions. This inner whisper is present in each of us. It's what we feel when we are immersed in an activity that deeply resonates with who we truly are. Or conversely, that feeling of discomfort, of boredom, that overwhelms us when we do something that doesn't really suit us.