The Surprising Truth About Ambition: What You Never Knew!

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I'm also a writer. I try to remove the taboo or negative associations we have with a word like power or ambition. I try to say ambition is a good thing. It means you believe in yourself. You have some self-love and you believe you are worth something. You want to go out and achieve and create something worthwhile for other people. Ambition is a positive thing. I had a friend who killed himself because he identified his ambition with the patriarchal force that's devouring the environment, let's say, and that's the cause of historical horror. You might say, well, no one takes that on to themselves to that degree. Well, you can say that, but you just don't know what the hell you're talking about. People take that on to themselves all the time.