Ambition used to be a virtue. Somewhere along the way, it became a vice. Once a cornerstone of the American ethos—synonymous with self-reliance, upward mobility, and personal agency—ambition is now ...

Ambition, the ability to remain dissatisfied with one’s accomplishments, fuels much of the world’s progress and advancements, not to mention conflicts and crime. Indeed, from the Sistine Chapel to ...

Redefining leadership and ambition for the future of work. What if leading better wasn’t about doing more but about leading with intentional ambition? For too long, ambition has been synonymous with ...

The pros and cons of status anxiety. Spinoza, never one for flattery, defined ambition as the immoderate desire to make ...

What’s the big idea? The Ambition Trap gives you greater permission to reclaim ambition on your own terms. Most of us think ambition means doing everything in our power to get what we want, but this ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. We are a nation of ambitious people, and yet ambition is a quality that ...

Ambition is one of the most celebrated traits in entrepreneurship. It pushes you to take risks, work through uncertainty, and keep building when most people would quit. Without ambition, very few ...

One of my favourite questions in therapy sessions is to ask clients to define what ambition means for them. It’s a question that has fascinated me for years. I have recognised that it’s a fallacy to ...

Cassie Werber: Ambition. Getting ahead, chasing success. It can feel so positive, even exciting—we’re ambitious for a better life and we’re going to hustle as hard as we can to get there. But then one ...