Quick Spoon: You can be kind to yourself AND ambitious

Being kind to yourself doesn't mean lowering your standards.In this People Soup Quick Spoon, Dr Amanda Super challenges the idea that self-compassion and ambition are somehow incompatible.Amanda shares what she learned from comparing her experience of her Master's degree with her doctorate ten years later, after developing self-compassion.She was still ambitious. Still driven. Still wanting to achieve.But she wasn't doing it at the cost of herself.So perhaps the question isn't whether we should be ambitious or self-compassionate.Perhaps we can be kind to ourselves AND ambitious.As Ross reflects:“Self-compassion doesn't necessarily mean asking less of ourselves. It might mean changing the way we ask it.”Try this:Think about something you're currently working hard to achieve.Ask yourself:“What would being kind to myself look like in this context?”And then:“Can I take one small step towards that?”This Quick Spoon comes from Ross's conversation with Dr Amanda Super about self-compassion, ambition, boundaries, recovery and being human at work.#PeopleSoup #QuickSpoon #SelfCompassion #Psychology #Leadership