Ambition and altruism feed each other — they are not opposites

There's a persistent assumption that being a good person and being ambitious are mutually limiting — that at some point you have to choose one over the other. Tiago doesn't have a clean answer to that tension, but his working principle is to give both equal weight. His insight is that knowing how to be ambitious should help you be more altruistic, and vice versa. Rather than cancelling each other out, they can fuel one another — provided you have enough clarity to combine them intentionally. That clarity about how you want to be, about the person you dream of becoming, is the catalyst that allows you to bring those two seemingly opposing drives together.