## Metadata * URL: [https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2022/10/28/on-michael-crichtons-busy-ambition/ * Author: Cal Newport * Publisher: Study Hacks * Published Date: [[2022-10-28]] * Tags: ## Highlights * In Crichton and Grisham we see two different models of ambition. * craves activity and feasts at the buffet of appealing opportunities that success creates. The other model, exemplified by Grisham, is what I call Type 2. It craves simplicity and autonomy, and sees success as a source of leverage to reduce stressful obligations. Medical school wasn’t sufficiently stimulating for Crichton. * A Type 2 personality working on a screenplay at the same time as two books while filling weeks with Hollywood meetings will be crushed with anxious unease.