Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
My DD16 regularly talks to me about this. Some of her college friends despair of their chances to "make it" in life... as in, measure up to what they envision "success" looking like. They are frantic to do more-more-more-more-more. They have a competitive mindset, and they live in a sort of paranoid fervor of needing to "outcompete" everyone for-- well, The Prize.

I think the goal is to become a Rhodes Colossus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rhodes_Colossus