Annie Ridout

Annie Ridout

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Why I'm no longer ambitious

And how you might like to re-think your own ambition

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Annie Ridout
Apr 20, 2023
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For the past 17 years, I’ve been working towards achieving some kind of ‘success’. Public recognition, financial success and general approval.

(Prior to that, life was all about fun, mischief, adventure and friends.)

It started with a project in my late teens called ‘Dear Someone’. I’d been writing poems since childhood and decided to now get them out int…

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