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Metaphors We Live By: Book XII: Ambition, Obsession, & Sacrifice
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Series: Metaphors We Live by, Book 12
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ISBN13: 9798199770262
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 2 2026
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 2 2026
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Metaphors We Live By: Book XII
Ambition, Obsession, & Sacrifice Ambition presents itself as direction.
It does not present its price. The price is not published in advance because it is not fixed.
It depends on how long the ambition lasts, how far it extends, and what each successive stage requires. By the time the later costs become clear, the investment already made has created its own momentum.
Ambition, Obsession, & Sacrifice Ambition presents itself as direction.
It does not present its price. The price is not published in advance because it is not fixed.
It depends on how long the ambition lasts, how far it extends, and what each successive stage requires. By the time the later costs become clear, the investment already made has created its own momentum.
Stopping is now more expensive than it appeared at the start. Metaphors We Live By: Ambition, Obsession, & Sacrifice is a collection of forty essays examining what drive actually costs, what obsession does to the life organized around it, and what is left when the pursuit finally ends. Inside, you will explore:
- Why the full invoice of ambition is never available at the moment of decision
- How obsession clarifies before it destroys, and why the transition is invisible from inside
- What the people nearest to the pursuit paid without being asked
- Why the hunger that drives achievement does not resolve at the finish line
- How momentum becomes the agenda, replacing the choice to continue
- What remains of the self when the obsession finally lifts This is not an argument against ambition.
This is not a case for comfort. It is a series of observations about the hidden structure of drive. What it produces, what it extracts, and what it leaves behind in the people who carry it. For those who have given everything to something.
Or who are in the middle of doing so.
- Why the full invoice of ambition is never available at the moment of decision
- How obsession clarifies before it destroys, and why the transition is invisible from inside
- What the people nearest to the pursuit paid without being asked
- Why the hunger that drives achievement does not resolve at the finish line
- How momentum becomes the agenda, replacing the choice to continue
- What remains of the self when the obsession finally lifts This is not an argument against ambition.
This is not a case for comfort. It is a series of observations about the hidden structure of drive. What it produces, what it extracts, and what it leaves behind in the people who carry it. For those who have given everything to something.
Or who are in the middle of doing so.
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