What Michael Lewis thinks about ambition

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American author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and The Undoing Project, and host of the podcast Against the Rules.

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15 Dec 2025

Our readingIf you take a deadline deadly seriously and refuse ever to violate it, your mind simply finishes the work when it needs to be finished.

Their wordssomehow if you take your deadlines seriously, that's the key. You take the deadlines deadly seriously and you just refuse to violate them. Um then you're serious when you establish them and you your mind just finishes when it needs to finish.

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