Michael Jordan, like Steve Jobs, wouldn't be as revered if he came up today A ruthless desire to win / be great is no longer as aspirational as self-acceptance We prefer contentment to relentless ambition, not appreciating that it was someone's ambition that enabled our comfort
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Curious: How do you define ambition, and do you consider yourself ambitious?
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dunno, just know it when I see it. And no, I’m in the 3rd resigned group.
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Agreed. Ambition as a lived value is just maximalism, and comes in different flavors. Each of e.g. McClellan Needs (power, achievement, affiliation) can fuel ambition. But when Ambition is feted as part of Hero Journey archetype, is then it's just a tool of Fame Culture/Lottery.
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Institutions that hype "Ambition=Good" are probably more individualist, and ironically more brutal in that they manage individuals as a portfolio of outcomes. Alternatively, institutions that de-emphasize the component of Ambition in success probably are more communalist.
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What do you mean by institutional environment?
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yes. as “institutional environments” cease to celebrate the extreme personal responsibility/ownership (of both the risks & rewards) necessarily inherent in the ambitious, the larger the fraction of the resentful becomes.
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