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Ambition vs. aspiration with philosopher Agnes Callard

ReThinking

CHAPTER

The Difference Between Ambition and Aspiration

Both ambition and aspiration can fuel big changes in your life. In the case of ambition, an example might be wanting to get a certain kind of high-powered job. With aspiration you're actually trying to get the desires themselves. You don't have those values yet, but you think you already know why you want them. It's where you want to appreciate a certain type of music or care for patients like a doctor does. But you don't know what that is like. And so you haven't developed distinctive vision of value at end of process.

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