In discussion elsewhere people have mentioned being inspired by people with “protagonist fields” or just generally vibing a lot of ambition. Or by getting told that their specific goal was important and they should go bigger with it.
On a really micro scale, a friend of mine said I really improved his life by both modeling and encouraging a lack of complacency with the local environment. When my apartment was too dark I got brighter bulbs, when air quality and temperature caused competing needs I got an air quality monitor and ran some experiments to see where the pareto frontier was. When he was having serious SAD I walked him through the lumenator, and what changes in location were possible.
So I do think there are ways to increase ambition on the margin, they just don’t look like “shout very loudly about it”.
In discussion elsewhere people have mentioned being inspired by people with “protagonist fields” or just generally vibing a lot of ambition. Or by getting told that their specific goal was important and they should go bigger with it.
On a really micro scale, a friend of mine said I really improved his life by both modeling and encouraging a lack of complacency with the local environment. When my apartment was too dark I got brighter bulbs, when air quality and temperature caused competing needs I got an air quality monitor and ran some experiments to see where the pareto frontier was. When he was having serious SAD I walked him through the lumenator, and what changes in location were possible.
So I do think there are ways to increase ambition on the margin, they just don’t look like “shout very loudly about it”.