Ambition

He came within 97 miles of the South Pole and turned back because his party was running out of food. In 1915, his ship Endurance was crushed by the ice of Antarctica's Weddell Sea, stranding 28 men with no radio and nobody in the world knowing where they were. To get help, he sailed a 22-foot open boat more than 800 miles across the Drake Passage, then crossed a mountain island no one had ever crossed. Every one of his men made it home.

This is the story of Ernest Shackleton, and we have a lot to learn from him.

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What is Ambition?

Ambition is a podcast about the world's most ambitious people from history and today, and the lessons you can take from their lives and use in your own work and life. Each episode is deeply researched, built around the definitive biography of one person (or in some cases, two), with dozens of hours spent reading, synthesizing, and pulling out what actually matters: what they built, how they thought, the struggles they overcame, and the tactics, strategies, and principles underneath it all.