You are right, there is a dark side to entrepreneurial ambition and Pollyanna should be tarred and feathered. You see it in the father that sinks hundreds of t

You are right, there is a dark side to entrepreneurial ambition and Pollyanna should be tarred and feathered. You see it in the father that sinks hundreds of thousands into a franchise and loses the family house or the founder banging their head against the wall. That's where ambition crosses over into obsession, or addiction. Fail fast is a good motto. We all can't and don't want to achieve greatness, but striving for something is one of the best tools we have for dealing with the predicament of being a human on a still primitive earth. The thing that impressed me most about TR was that he became a once-in-a-generation leader through sheer force of will, a demand to have fun, to be free, a desire to experience new and dangerous things, and a righteous absence of fear of death. All this despite treacherous fate cursing him to be a sickly child, with severe asthma at a time when there were no good medicines for it. His brother was the heir apparent, but TR had a lust for life, he wanted it more. I want to want it more.