I got an email from someone I had never met, which summed up the striver’s curse as well as anything I’ve ever read. I now find myself on the wrong side of 50, with a deep, profound sense of regret, having spent the past 30 years of my life chasing one goal (work success). And while I’ve attained that goal, the personal cost has been extraordinarily high: the past 30 years can never be recovered, the relationships and other life events missed out on can never be experienced.
