04/10/2026
You call it ambition. It might be fear of stopping.
Ambition moves toward something. Fear of stopping just moves — away from the silence that shows up the second the output does.
This time of year makes the two hard to tell apart. Everyone's pace picks up, so a person who can't stop looks exactly like a person who's driven. Same calendar. Different engine.
Here's how you tell: what happens in the fifteen minutes where nothing is due? Relief means ambition. Danger means something else is running the schedule.
Most people never find out, because the calendar never gives them the fifteen minutes.
What happens in yours?