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Rishikesh Tirumalai's avatar

It’s funny, I’ve always simultaneously been a great and terrible student. I think ambition is so so important - essential to satisfaction and fulfillment. But we often mix up other people’s ambitions for our own

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Jody J. Sperling's avatar

Great essay here, Becca! For me it's all about what the ambition is for. If my ambition is built around an ideal that others seem to want for me, or something I think I'm supposed to want, it's a force of destruction in my life.

If my ambition is for something pure and honest, nothing brings me more life. And I find that when I'm stoked on life, and ambitious, it's hard not to share that with the world, which then can become someone else's "supposed-to-want" which is destructive in their life.

On the other hand, maybe my ambition and shouting it from the mountain tops is the key that awakens a dream in someone that makes their life so much better. Good and bad never seem far removed.

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