You Need to Have an Ambition

In order to act in the world, you have to direct your action towards some end. In order to have an end, you need to have an ambition. And there's danger in that, because if you have an ambition, it's certainly possible that there are other people in the world that you might compare yourself to that have gone farther in the attainment of that ambition than you. It's almost inevitably the case. No matter what dimension of value you determine to pursue, the probability that there's someone out there who's better at it than you are is extraordinarily high. That can lead you to become jealous and envious and bitter. So you need to be able to hold an ambition in