APX-IV-0029
“I've been hiding my ambition because I don't want to seem like too much.”
Ambition is not a character flaw. The desire to build, grow, and achieve is part of your nature — not something to apologize for or hide. What you do with ambition matters. But hiding it doesn't make it virtuous. It just makes it frustrated.
Your Practice
Write your ambition down plainly — what you actually want, at full scale, with no hedging. Don't perform modesty on paper. Then share it with one person this week who will take it seriously. Speaking ambition aloud removes its shame and gives it traction.
The Architects
“There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.”
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love, 1992