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11. Are Ambitious People Inherently Selfish?

No Stupid Questions

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Are You Self Interested and Other Interested at the Same Time?

"I've had like a decade long debate with Adam Grant about this because he studies givers," she says. "If you want to be a sustainable giver and somebody who doesn't burn out, you have to think like, how can I be helpful to this person? And that did take me a while because I basically thought martyrdom was the superior approach for much of my life."

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