Authbition Weekly — Unstoppable and Never Enough
How comparison and growth collide, and why compassion makes us unstoppable
Welcome to the weekly newsletter for Authbition—it’s Authenticity and Ambition. It’s the best of the best, built on vulnerability, non-attachment, caring, thoughtfulness, and whole-mindedness.
Yesterday, Abby and I and our dogs Frank & Gus returned to our home in Raleigh after spending over two weeks in our home-away-from-home, our Airstream. If you’ve never been to Black Forest Family Campground in Cedar Mountain, NC, we highly recommend it. As we were rolling out, Abby said, “I think this place is one of Western North Carolina’s best-kept secrets.”
While there, I recorded show A020, where Abby joined me at the mic to play The Whole Mind Game. Our tension was:
Comparison Mindset <> Growth Mindset
On the surface, one pulls us into benchmarks and peer pressure, while the other propels us toward limitless optimism. But both share a shadow: never enough. We found the synergy in Unstoppable—and grounded it with the mantra I am enough.
Abby stayed on as I read my essay, My Journey of Finding Home. I didn’t expect to get choked up, but I did. That moment—reading words I had labored over while sitting in the very same Airstream where they were written—hit me harder than I could have planned.
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Featured Essay
The essay, published in The Narrative Arc, weaves bikes, family, and feasting into a story of what home really means. Home isn’t a place—it’s found after the ride, at the table, in the embrace of people we love.
My Journey of Finding Home
From adventures to feasting, there’s no place like home here with you
This Week’s Highlight
This week, I read a piece that stopped me in my tracks: Have You Considered Trying Psychopathy? by Robin Wilding.
It’s provocative, sharp, and unsettling in the best way. Robin flips the script on how we think about traits like ruthlessness and detachment—qualities we’d usually run from—and invites us to examine them with curiosity. Reading it made me reflect on my own tension between compassion and ambition, between “I am enough” and “never enough.”
Different voice, different path, same invitation: what happens when we look closely at the parts of ourselves we’d rather ignore?
Robin is quickly becoming one of my favorite writers. You can find her on Medium and Substack. She’s funny and refreshing. I find myself laughing out loud and learning when reading her work.
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Health, happiness, kindness, respect
for every being and all things.
— Andrew
