Balancing ambition and mental health in a culture that glorifies overwork.
The Pressure Beneath the Polished Surface
Walk across the University of the Pacific campus on a weekday evening, and one will see it — students hunched over laptops in the library, coffee cups multiplying like lab reports, eyes heavy but determined. We often call it dedication. Some describe it as ambition. Yet lately, I have begun to wonder if it is something else: quiet exhaustion disguised as success…