Ambition is often celebrated as the quiet force behind success. The pulse of innovation, achievement, and influence. It drives creation, sharpens focus, and gives shape to possibility. Yet, for many who live by its current, ambition can turn from a virtue into a demand.

At its best, ambition fuelled excellence. At its worst, it consumes it. When what one strives for or desire fails to materialise, when the opportunity slips away, the recognition never arrives, or the timing misfires, the effect can be profound. The sense or perception of worth, clarity, even peace, becomes entangled with an outcome that may never come, an outcome that may come in a different way, or an outcome that is delayed…..

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