In the case of Ambition vs Contentment (no citation, unfortunately) permit me: whenever I see “vs” and it isn’t between two familiar football teams, my law-student brain immediately assumes there is a case.

This time there is actually a case because I know of someone who says “I don’t like ambitious people… I’m contented with whatever I have”

I would chuckle and the voice in my head would say “so how did you have what you have now” Even the things we now comfortably possess may have once required ambition, effort, desire or aspiration.

And I once sent him a Socrates quote “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”

A lot of people think Ambition and Contentment are two sides on a coin but I have come to realise that ambition and contentment are not opposites.

Ambition makes you look ahead. It tells you that you can do more, become better, build something meaningful and reach places you have never been.

Contentment, however, reminds you to appreciate where you are while you are still on the journey.

Back to the quote, It means It means that true wealth is being satisfied with what you have, while constantly wanting more can make even a wealthy person feel poor.

If you still think you have to choose between being Ambitious or staying contented, know that being satisfied is not the same as becoming stagnant. You can appreciate what you have without believing that it is the limit of what you can become

The problem begins when ambition makes you believe that what you have is neve