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Ambition

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Jon interviews people at different points in their lives to assess how ambition shapes us.

Jon Ronson interviews people at different points in their lives to assess how driving ambition shapes us. From February 2010.

The writer Jon Ronson asks how our driving ambitions shape us. By interviewing several people at different points in their lives, he sees how ambition can make and break people. 

He talks to an 11 year old boy who has plans to be a world class architect, a young woman who has set her sites on being Prime Minister and an ambitious stock broker whose success led him down a dangerous path towards a high security prison in the US. 

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