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What Masud Husain thinks about ambition

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Professor of Neurology at the University of Oxford, whose research covers apathy, motivation, attention and Alzheimer's disease.

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

    Their wordsBut 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.

    ↗How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud Husainyoutube.com 12th of 24 in this recording

    Interesting

  3. Our readingBeing told to be realistic about your ambitions is how ambitions fail; the boundaries people accept about what they can do are the ones that stop them.

    Their wordsIf I had thought in those ways, it probably wouldn't have happened. I just didn't think that we should have these boundaries to what you can do.

    ↗How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud Husainyoutube.com 13th of 24 in this recording

    Interesting