Remaining Ambitious - by Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Poet on a Mountaintop by Shen Zhou (15th century/Ming period). I chose this classical painting as a nod to one of the first posts on this blog, Becoming Ambitious, in which I drew a picture of mountains to represent ambitious goals. We tend to see ambition like a personality trait. We describe people as ambitious, or not, as if it were a fixed property of their being. But the reality is that it ebbs and flows. You can become more ambitious over time as you learn what you are capable of, and as encouraging peers push you along. Conversely, your ambition can recede when you become…
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