Marden compares ambition to the magnetising of a compass needle: once touched, a person points steadily toward a goal. Short chapters weigh the satisfied man against the striver, the influence of environment, unworthy ambitions, the claim that ambition knows no age limit, the habit of visualising a better position, and what to do when ambition is thwarted.
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