With his Type 1 and Type 2 ambitions, the author has stumbled upon the established SCARF model, which involves five domains of human social experience: status,

With his Type 1 and Type 2 ambitions, the author has stumbled upon the established SCARF model, which involves five domains of human social experience: status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, and fairness. You can apply this to a lot of things: ambition, leadership, engagement at work, etc. In this case, through their ambition, Grisham seeks autonomy (and to an extent certainty) and Crichton status.