No one deserves anything

It’s freeing to know that we're not deserving of success

‘No one deserves anything,’ Anna Codrea-Rado, my podcast co-host, said to me this week when we were talking on the show about our complicated relationship with ambition. She said that we all deserve the same rights and to live safely and without fear, but beyond that: ‘no one deserves anything.’

The idea that we’re deserving of success is an extension o…