In the epic struggle between Excellence vs. Ambition, excellence wins. Even if it were not more effective, excellence wins just by the mere fact that ambition requires the extra step of taking one’s focus off himself and placing it onto tools that actually accomplish the ambition – habits and actions.

Excellence already resides squarely in the community of habits and actions since excellence is the balance of two components: speed + detail.

Excellence keeps us on the right road and will take us further than ambition.