The Cost of Ambition: What if ambition is making us worse?

Professor Volf’s lecture draws on his 2025 book, The Cost of Ambition: How Striving to Be Better Than Others Makes Us Worse , an insightful and timely examination of the corrosive effects of ambition and the ways in which a culture of competition shapes human identity.
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