In praise of ambition

Some people need to get to the top

I shall be like that tree – I shall die at the top. Jonathan Swift

Ambition has a bad reputation of late. It’s seen as a touch ‘toxic masculinity’, a distraction from the really important things in life, a bit unchill. In the celebrated ‘Five regrets of the dying’, no-one is saying that they worked more, although their ambition often seems to have been t…