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Real Value of the Ambition Economy

Everyone Has Ambitions → Your Ambitions Are Everywhere

Across the world, there are 5.5 billion people aged 16+. On average, each of us holds about 5 ambitions – things we want to achieve for ourselves, our careers, or society.

That means there are around 27.5 billion ambitions in play right now.

  • Personal: 16.5 billion (e.g. learn Spanish, lose weight, buy a home, get out of debt).
  • Professional: 6.9 billion (e.g. start a business, land a promotion, build a strong team).
  • Societal: 4.1 billion (e.g. reduce local crime, fight climate change, reform healthcare).

Most Ambitions Are Shared → You’re Not Alone

Think your ambition is unique? It’s not.

  • If you want to learn Spanish, millions of others share that exact same ambition.
  • If you want to start a small business, tens of millions do too.
  • If you want to see political reform or protect your environment, billions worldwide are aligned.

Even if there were a million different ambition types globally, the numbers show that almost every ambition overlaps with someone else’s.

👉 Shared ambitions are the norm, not the exception.

Billions Need Help → Help Is Needed

Here’s the catch: ambition alone doesn’t get results.

  • Around 40% of ambitions need external help to succeed – money, partners, influence, or scale.
  • That’s 11 billion ambitions worldwide where people can’t move forward on their own.
  • Of these, 7.7 billion ambitions lack leverage or scale – meaning people are stuck even though others share their goal.

Examples:

  • A community group wants to reduce food waste – but lacks the network to connect with local businesses.
  • A young professional wants to launch a startup – but can’t access funding or mentors.
  • A family wants to go solar – but can’t negotiate lower prices alone.

Every one of these ambitions could progress faster and further if people connected and acted together.

Why the Progress Framework and Ambition Economy Matter → How Ideas-Shared Unlocks Ambitions

The Progress Framework and the Ambition Economy exist to unlock this trapped potential.

  • Matching: Help people find others with the same ambition.
  • Micro Actions: Break ambitions into small, achievable steps..
  • Leverage: Pool skills, resources, and influence to overcome barriers.

This is how billions of ambitions that seem out of reach can suddenly become achievable.

The Big Picture – A Picture That Includes All of Us

  • 27.5 billion ambitions worldwide
  • 11 billion need help
  • 7.7 billion stuck without leverage
  • Almost every ambition is shared by thousands, millions, or even billions

👉 Imagine if even 1% of those stuck ambitions were unlocked. Perhaps yours, too?
That’s 77 million breakthroughs in personal, professional, and societal progress.

That’s the power of Ideas-Shared.

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