Ambition is the strong desire to achieve something. It is an eagerness to direct our experiences in a certain direction. We wish to acquire specific things, to have people think of us in certain ways. We wish to control the outcome.
Key Concepts: compulsion, contentment, control, determination, drive, fame, goal, greed, resolve, success
Archetypes: the achiever, arrow, eggplant, the fall, goat, gorgon, heron, hollyhock, nasturtium, the office, rat, serpent, social climber, sparrow, tangerine
Ambition is a strong desire to achieve something. It is a desire to focus our experiences in a certain direction. Everyone has ambitions, that is an inescapable fact of being human. Being ambitious is not positive or negative in itself, it just is. We can become more aware of and honest about our ambitions. Once […]
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A Map of Tulsa, Benjamin Lytal (2013) New York: Penguin. Ostensibly a story about young love, A Map of Tulsa is a beautiful telling of the long, slow, painful birth of a writer. An artistic young man grows up with a limited view, yet a calling for something greater. Early experiences sear into his brain,
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Passion is: desire, affliction, appetite, craving, itch, agony, affection, sentiment, frenzy, transporting, lusty, craving, coveting, aspiring, aiming, intense, fiery, enthusiasm, zealous. Passion, in all of its various meanings, always suggests intensity. Intensity of emotion or belief, which can be experienced as an esoteric euphoria or great suffering. When you feel passion you are living right
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Contentment is: satisfaction, delight, gratification, grace, peaceful, appeased, delighted, thrilled, smiling, purring. Contentment seems like a passive thing; in some ways it is, because you can feel it without doing anything. But for the state of mind to be more than fleeting and occasional, it requires a great effort. Not necessarily at a checklist (although
Turner, Ted (with Bill Burke). (2008). Call Me Ted. New York: Grand Central Publishing. This is exactly what you want from a good memoir: the book gives you insights into Turner’s life, his perceptions of what happened at various points in his career, and the writing is as unique, direct and as colorful as Turner’s
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