What Ambition Looks Like At 80

Do you believe ambition fades with age, or can it actually grow stronger? In this episode, Shannon and Dan discuss how ambition evolves over time, share Dan's desire to be even more ambitious at 90, and reveal how transforming ambition into action can lead to growth and fulfillment at every age.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

• How Dan’s strongest ambition relates to ambition itself.
• What you can gain by sticking to what you’re great at and love doing.
• How Dan came up with the goal of living to the age of 156.
• Ways you can lean into expanding your ambition.
• Why it’s easier to move forward than to maintain your position.
• Why some successful entrepreneurs get discouraged when they think about their ambition.
• The dire consequences of giving up your ambition.

Show Notes:

People begin to feel old when they stop making commitments—and stop prioritizing courage.

When entrepreneurs focus exclusively on doing what they’re great at and love doing, their impact multiplies. When combined with technology, the results are exponential. 

Since your skills and capabilities will be much greater 10 years from now, your goals can be much bigger in 10 years too.

When you’re ambitious, all sorts of unexpected opportunities and experiences become available to you.

When you view ambition as an action, it becomes something you can invest your talent, skills, and time into.

Ambition is a skill made up of a number of subskills.

When your brain normalizes the idea that you’re going to live far longer than normal expectations, it changes your understanding of the present.

Time only speeds up when you think you’re running out of it.

Being unable to imagine yourself with more ambition in the future robs you of your power in the present.

No one’s interested in being in teamwork with someone who’s stopped growing.

Your real age has to do with what lies ahead of you—and your imagination.

What human beings most look for in other human beings is commitment and courage.

Commitment and courage create capability.

If you’re more committed and more courageous, it’s easy to be more ambitious.

Confidence is the reward for acquiring a new capability.

With a higher level of confidence, you can make greater commitments.

To make any significant improvement or change in your life, you have to be 100% committed to doing it.

You only truly start aging when you give up your ambition.

Resources:

Unique Ability^®

My Plan For Living To 156 by Dan Sullivan

The 4 C’s Formula by Dan Sullivan