"Ambition! If it means the desire to get ahead of other people then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one."
A $10 bargain buy, and this is what you get - brilliance. Every time really, with C.S. Lewis. You read something that seems so simple, and when he spoke it probably rolled off his tongue with some ease we never dream of having, but do more than read it. Apply it. By now your thinking about your goals, ambitions, and desires. What is their purpose?
Maybe you're driven to earn the title "MVP" just so you can hang a plaque in your office and stare at the gold letters, inscribed by some automated machine made in China. But my hope is that our desires will be to see out the tasks in front of us to completion, working as hard as our minds and bodies will let us.
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