Amina AlTai

instrumentalizing our minds and bodies to get to the goal.

This desire to win no matter the cost and no matter the cost being the key phrase there because winning is lovely, right?

But it's like when we're willing to hurt ourselves and others to get there.

It can look like black and white either or thinking.

And then purposeful ambition on the other hand is it's more contentment based versus that win no matter the cost.

It's about being collaborative versus like hyper individualistic.

It's about honoring our needs versus hurting our bodies.

So sort of the opposite of the painful piece.

I don't think we can separate ourselves, right?

I think so many of us are taught to, right?

Where a lot of us live as if there's this invisible line, you know, below our neck connecting the mind and body, but they're one.

And so the thoughts that we have impact our body, our nervous system impacts our thoughts, right?

So all of these pieces are so intertwined.

And if we live our lives in a dominantly sympathetic or fight or flight state, we're going to have fight or flight thoughts.

It's also going to express as disease, right?

So when we're thinking about ambition and our careers and hard charging and all these things, we have to bring our minds and our nervous systems on the journey.

And it's exactly what you said.

It doesn't mean that we can't hard charge, but it means we need to work harmoniously with these things.

Let me give you an example.

You know, I think how we're taught about ambition is we think it's more for more's sake all the time, right?