Think about ambition - again

Handle that monkey on your shoulder with care. Freed from it, life may be a good deal nicer.

Ambition is a good thing but it must be proportionate. PHOTO: AFP

(FINANCIAL TIMES) Not long ago, I had lunch with a friend who told me that his father, who had been a moderately well-known politician, had just died.

How sad, I said.

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