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FYI - to highly ambitious people, just "living a comfortable life" sounds like hell. They wish to strive for far more, even if doing so is uncomfortable. Decen
by solve 11y ago
FYI - to highly ambitious people, just "living a comfortable life" sounds like hell. They wish to strive for far more, even if doing so is uncomfortable.
Decent, reasonable, comfortable - hardly the sales pitch you'll want to use if you want to attract or retain highly ambitious people. Do you?
Not trying to offend anyone, just consider that some people have much different desires than others.
- _delirium 11y agoEh, there's different kinds of ambition. Most of the highly ambitious people I know take living a comfortable life as a necessary starting point for real ambition, because their goals are to make things such as scientific advances, not to spend all their time just trying to make money. I wouldn't call Larry Ellison ambitious, for example. He is just a hard-headed, no-holds-barred businessman who wants to maximize his income. Copenhagen Suborbitals are much more ambitious than Oracle, in my view of ambition. Now a culture in which the likes of Oracle thrive: there is something that sounds like hell to ambitious people.