Ambition: How We Manage Success and Failure Throughout Our Lives

by Gilbert Brim and Gilbert Brimm

Book Overview

From birth to death, all humans strive for growth and mastery and all of us experience - and must learn to handle - success and failure. How do we do it? Indeed, how do we evaluate our successes and failures when others often withhold information from us? How do we explain to ourselves and to others the reasons for our triumphs and disasters? Most important, how do we learn to manage our ambitions and develop strategies for dealing with failure and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465091903
• ISBN13: 9780465091904
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

good, informative, true

i have read many books & know from real life & working experience that what the author says is true, & it is a very realistic & nicely done analogy of the progression of ambition & our mental & physical states (although they vary between individuals) throughout our working lives~thank you very much for this study