Yet unlike O'Reilly, he stops short of labeling extrinsic ambition as positive or negative. As a scholar of power, he notes that these findings describe reality but don't necessarily prescribe any ...

Negative self-talk, or an excessively-critical inner monologue, can keep you from reaching your goals and create a cycle of ...

This trait can be positive or negative; little ambition can mean never reaching one’s goals, and excessive ambition can mean ignoring other areas of life. See where you fall on this ambition scale.