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Ambition does not equate with happiness: in the Harvard aging cohort it was the people who lived average lives who reported being happiest.

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ambition How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.

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  1. Masud Husain

    Professor of Neurology at the University of Oxford

    But when they looked at the happiness levels of these people, it was the average person who actually would self-report the highest levels of happiness. So ambition doesn't necessarily equate with happiness, which I think many people would agree with with that.

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