Shrugging off the mantle

Recently Karren Brady's Strong Women book flitted through my tweet stream a few days before that I had listened to Austin Kleon talking to the first Austin, TX Creative Mornings meeting. Both links below.
The key take away from Austin's talk was 'practice, share the work both success and failures and co-learn' from Karren's top ten rules for success No. 3 Embrace Ambition, 7. Plan to win and 9. Grasp the bottom line - I seem to have completed a cycle of No. 5 Take a reality check.
Have you noticed any shifts in your thinking recently? Working with the local Coderdojo has definitely added a sense of a paradigm shift as learning becomes open, collaborative and happens weekly for children, teens and mentors!
If you're following my blog you will know I have shifted perhaps the axis of how I offer my intelligence's for work. By following my action I think I am shrugging of an old template about ambition. I don't consider myself ambitious. I know some of my associates and colleagues have described me as driven. Which came as a surprise to me. Do you consider them the same thing?
So yes I am embracing ambition as I reconnect to potential work and employment.

What are you ambitious for?

 Karren Brady's Strong Women Extract


Austin Kleon at CreativeMornings/Austin from CreativeMornings/Austin on Vimeo.