Life After Ambition

<b>Channeling the subversive and sharp-eyed voice showcased in her popular column for</b><b> </b><b><i>The Cut</i></b><b>, Amil Niazi </b><b>stylishly interrogates the aspirations of young adulthood, early middle age, motherhood, and life after ambition. </b><BR><BR>Building off her wildly popular viral essays “Losing My Ambition” and “The Mindfuck of Mid-Life,” Amil Niazi explores what life looks like “post-ambition.” With sly humor and a deep literary sensibility, she interrogates her own evolving ambitions, and how it intersects with adulthood, motherhood, age, identity, class, and race, and how it has shaped her and a generation of Millennials. And—most importantly—now that she is done with ambition: what happens next?<BR> <BR> An achingly relatable, intensely funny punch to the gut which reveals that, though we hide them from one another, we all have the same painful bruises. At its core, <i>Losing My Ambition </i>is about optimism—about the joy of choosing something different and the thrill of finding ourselves when we thought all was lost. A whip-smart reimagination of how to live our lives, <i>Losing My Ambition</i> reclaims mediocrity to tell us that it is okay to NOT have ambitions but to try and live a life that is true to who we are.