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ambition as a fingerprint

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generalized vs personal ambition

"Don't be afraid of being different. Be afraid of being the same." Being Different, by Jason Noh The reason I’m writing about ambition is two-fold: 1) I recently wrote about how crushes are often just misplaced ambition, and I have more to say on the topic. 2) I had an incredible conversation about success and motivation with two friends the other night. One of them identified her personal ambition—something she hadn’t crystallized until that conversation. It made me think: why don’t more of us know what we want? Why is it so hard to crisply articulate our definition of success? The…

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