From (Individual) Ambition to (Collective) Aspiration

The Guardian.

When I asked O’Reilly about making ambition more collective, she mentioned how challenging it was in a culture steeped in fierce individualism. It was a matter of shifting the questions, she said: “Instead of ‘what do I want to achieve?’ or ‘what problem do I want to solve?’, perhaps, ‘whom can I serve?’ and ‘how can we make life better for others?’”