No Ambition

I was thinking this morning about people with wildly successful careers, like Hilary Clinton, or Madonna, or even, ya gotta love her, Gale Norton, and how they are different from everyone else who is just as smart, and creative, and talented but not what you'd call wildly successful in the way Condoleeza Rice is.

We comfort ourselves by noting our soulfulness, our sensitivity, our quirkiness both neurological and biochemical, and we know we are interesting. But we are not ruling the world.