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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us is a non-fiction book written by Daniel Pink.The book was published in 2009 by Riverhead Hardcover.It argues that human motivation is largely intrinsic and that the aspects of this motivation can be divided into autonomy, mastery, and purpose. [1]
Ambition is the first novel by Julie Burchill published in 1989 hardback and 1990 paperback, ISBN 9780552135580. [ 1 ] It tells the story of the ambitious if unimaginatively named Susan Street and her efforts to become a newspaper editor.
Gossipy Caroline Pearce wants to be accepted, so she invents love letters to prove that she's got a boyfriend, and she actually stirs up others' interest in her relationship - too bad it's fake! Meanwhile, the twins think their parents want to move to San Francisco.
"I don't ever remember personally feeling the negative connotation behind the word ambitious until I started dating my now husband," she says in the episode.
The book does not discuss Freud's ego or egotism as a clinical term but rather ego in a colloquial sense, defined as "an unhealthy belief in your own importance." [ 10 ] The book also discusses the difference between ego and confidence, and argues that the solution to the problem of ego is humility, self-awareness, purpose and realism.
Thirteen-year-old Theodore "Theo" Boone is the son of Woods Boone, a real estate lawyer, and Marcella Boone, a divorce lawyer, and cherishes an ambition to become either a judge or lawyer himself. At the beginning of the book, Theo's eighth grade Government class is following the big murder trial of Pete Duffy, accused of strangling his wife ...
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 ...
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