Success you can live with

Ambition · Little Light original

Before a decision becomes a habit, there is usually a moment when you can still feel yourself choosing. You notice that a promise is a little too generous, a number is presented without its context, or someone else's effort is disappearing from the story. It would be easier to stay quiet. You have something to gain. Pause there. Ask what you would want to know if you were the person on the other side. Find a way to tell the truth while there is still time for it to matter. You may not get every advantage that silence would have offered. Ambition will take you into situations where your values become inconvenient. Give those values a voice before the outcome becomes the only thing you can hear. It is worth building a success you can describe honestly when the people you most respect ask how it happened.

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