Ambition
the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us he'd come for us after we die, and not when we're still living.
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?
We think that we surround ourselves with our interests, but causality often runs the other way: We become interested in what we’re surrounded by.
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