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  2. The climb: How to keep workplace ambition from burning you out

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    Ariane Hunter, career equity consultant, speaker and author, notes that children of immigrants can often specifically point to their upbringings as the source of their ambition and have likely ...

  3. Ambition (character trait) - Wikipedia

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    Ambition is a character trait that describes people who are driven to better their station or to succeed at lofty goals. It has been categorized both as a virtue and as a vice. The use of the word "ambitious" in William Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar (1599), for example, points to its use to describe someone who is ruthless in seeking out ...

  4. Cynicism (contemporary) - Wikipedia

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    Cynicism is an attitude characterized by a general distrust of the motives of others. [1] A cynic may have a general lack of faith or hope in people motivated by ambition, desire, greed, gratification, materialism, goals, and opinions that a cynic perceives as vain, unobtainable, or ultimately meaningless.

  5. Avolition - Wikipedia

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    Avolition or amotivation, as a symptom of various forms of psychopathology, is the decrease in the ability to initiate and persist in self-directed purposeful activities. [1] [2] Such activities that appear to be neglected usually include routine activities, including hobbies, going to work or school, and most notably, engaging in social activities.

  6. Mourning the mentor: Gen Z longs for a coach at work, but ...

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    That said, mentorship programs can further inequity, as the Harvard Business Review points out that most executives mentor people of the same race and gender. The outlet suggests fostering ...

  7. Icarus complex - Wikipedia

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    Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too close to the sun or too low to the sea. Overwhelmed with the excitement of flying, Icarus flew much too high, and as a result the wax melted and his feathers fell off. Down Icarus plunged into the sea, and indeed into death as well. The story of Icarus is often used to signify the dangers of over-ambition. [3]

  8. Elon Musk is causing trouble in Europe. What’s in it for him?

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    Some of those who have previously advanced Trump’s interests in Europe now see Musk as an unfettered, even less polished version of the president; an agitator whose style and ambition has come ...

  9. What Is Your Dangerous Idea? - Wikipedia

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    Many authors discussed how ideas themselves can be dangerous, or the idea that ideas can be dangerous. One such author, Daniel Gilbert, states, in his entry: "Dangerous" does not mean exciting or bold; it means likely to cause great harm. The most dangerous idea is the only dangerous idea: The idea that ideas can be dangerous. —Daniel Gilbert [7]