Poetry and Ambition
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Poetry and Ambition
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Ambition, then and now
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But at a minimum, we shouldn’t find our ambitions by accident. If we imagine that we’re no longer in our current pond—that we got fired, or are 16 years old and dreaming about what we to do with our life, or 80 years old and reflecting on what we did—what would we care about then? Are the ladders we spent our time climbing the ladders that we really want to stand at the top of?
Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
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Ambition isn't about getting more money, more goods, bigger houses, greater acclaim from people you don't know or respect. It's not about anything that can fit on a spreadsheet or graph, or that lends itself well to bragging on social media. All of that is just grasping, not ambition.
Ambition is about the echoes you want to leave reverberating in t... See more
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River Kenna • Soul-Making Productivity: A Process Manifesto
“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
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