Meet Alexander the Great: Ambition and Its Bill

First into the breach

Alexander led from the front — literally first over the wall at Multan, arrow through the lung. His men followed him across three continents because he shared every hardship, remembered soldiers' names, and never asked what he wouldn't do first.

The Hyphasis lesson

At the river Hyphasis in India, his exhausted army simply refused to go further — and the man who never lost a battle lost to his own limitlessness. He died at thirty-two with no succession plan, and the empire shattered in a generation. Ambition without a 'why' or an 'enough' consumes even its greatest servant.

Why they belong at your table

Seat him to interrogate your ambition honestly: what is worth wanting, what it will cost, and what happens the day after you get it.