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Entrepreneurs benefit from setting ambitious goals, even though most people do not need grand ambitions at all.

Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said

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

Why is ambition important?under our view: Ambition has costs: it is not happiness, and starting too big can sink you

What David Heinemeier Hansson actually said

  1. David Heinemeier Hansson Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
    And I will say I've actually changed my mind on that a little bit. I spent quite a lot of time speaking the other book that there are a lot of people who don't actually need those ambitions. And I also-- That's also true. We don't want 8 billion Elons running around the world. Would be rather crazy, I think. But I've come to realize that for entrepreneurs, it's healthy to have suitable chunky goals.

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