Overachievers


Define "Normal"
The Herd
Girls with Bright Futures
Rule of Wolves (King of Scars, #2)
A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3)
The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2)
Ruin and Rising (Shadow and Bone, #3)
All the Bright Places
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)
If We Were Villains
A Monster Calls
Susan Sontag
We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The onl ...more
Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover

Overachievers win by treating AI as a teammate, not a tool.
Emmanuel Apetsi

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ONE OF US: NaNo Overachievers The Goodreads group for Wrimos who go above and beyond 50k for NaNoWriMo, or have done so in a s…more
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