#598 How to understand and take action with your ambition

Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast and you are listening to one of our Squiggly Career shortcuts, weekly episodes designed to be deliberately short, so they are specific and full of lots of ideas to help you to take action. And today I want to talk a little bit about ambition. Yes, I'm going to try and cover ambition in five minutes. I am also going to talk about a matrix because Sarah is not here, so I'm allowed to talk about as many matrices as I like. But what I would say is sometimes it can be hard to

bring a matrix to life through audio. So we'll stick a picture of the Matrix on our Squiggly Careers page on LinkedIn. So make sure that you are following us there if you want to see what this looks like. This is also going to be a video on our YouTube channel as well, our Squiggly Careers YouTube channel. So if you want to see me talking the Matrix through, you can either go to LinkedIn, go to YouTube, but I will do my best to describe it for you.

So this matrix is a way of you understanding your ambition. And in squiggly careers, we are always trying to recognize that people's ambitions look different. Seniority is not the only way to succeed in your squiggly career. And what you want now from your work might not be what you want in the future. So we're trying to sort of reflect that in the way that we're thinking about ambition.

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