@caliban87 Seems like a cultural thing to me. My parents indoctrinated sociopathic workaholism, and I embraced it. It has exhibited itself in me as ambitious.
@33MHz Italy is very laidback and my parents are some of the least ambitious people I've ever met, but I am almost neurotic when it comes to most of my ambitions
@Caliban87 nearly-tautologically-true answer: there's gotta be some sort of balancing selection pressure(s), but I'm not sure what they are. You'd think selection would be way stronger in favor of type-A personalities
@adiabatic this is my theory too. I think that the environment sets the expectations surrounding achievement and one's degree of agency, but type-A personality is the primary ingredient. Of course, ambition ≠ achievement