Your ambition is borrowed: Reprogram Mindset. Forge Unbreakable Habits. Own Your Freedom.

By kh Louglaib

Your Life Looks Perfect on Paper. So Why Does It Feel Like a Cage?

You've played by every rule and checked every box. Built the career, earned the title, stacked the achievements that make the world nod in approval. But in the 3 AM silence—when the notifications stop and the performance ends—you know the truth:

That relentless drive you call ambition? It's not yours. It's a Phantom Drive—a borrowed engine fueled by the desperate need to prove, please, and outperform. And it's powering you straight into a wall of spiritual exhaustion that no vacation, promotion, or paycheck can fix.

                     *** This is Borrowed Ambition, and it's the silent epidemic killing high achievers in boardrooms from Silicon Valley to Zurich. ***

? THE PROBLEM NO ONE DARES TO NAME

You don't need another goal-setting framework. You need a deprogramming.

Imposter syndrome isn't in your head—it's the "alarm system" screaming that you're living someone else's life. The burnout that prescriptions can't touch? It's not fatigue; it's your authentic self dying of neglect. Every "win" feels hollow because you're collecting trophies for a game you never wanted to play.

The world sold you a lie: "Want more, do more, be more." But what if the ultimate power move isn't adding, but stripping away?

 

? THE REVOLUTIONARY DECONSTRUCTION

• Book "YOUR AMBITION IS BORROWED" is not a self-help book. It's an industrial-strength truth serum for the soul-weary elite.

This is the first and only blueprint that doesn't ask you to optimize your performance—it demands you burn the script and architect a life where external ambition becomes irrelevant.

Inside these pages, you'll deconstruct the psychological machinery that's held you hostage since childhood and rebuild an Unshakeable Core powered by the science of Intrinsic Motivation (Self-Determination Theory) and the philosophy of Authentic Power.

✓ FOR THE 73% OF C-SUITE EXECUTIVES who secretly battle imposter syndrome (Harvard Business Review, 2024).  
✓ FOR THE 89% OF MILLENNIALS who'd take a 50% pay cut for an authentic purpose (Deloitte Global Survey).  
✓ FOR THE "FINISHED" FOUNDERS who achieved the exit and felt… nothing.  
✓ FOR THE WEARIED PROFESSIONALS of Zurich, Geneva, Toronto, and Manhattan who are done performing.

This is the antidote to toxic productivity—the deprogramming manual for a generation waking up to the fact that the ladder they've climbed was leaning against the wrong wall.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: kheiro Yes
• Release date: Dec 8, 2025
• ISBN: 9798232600570

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Your ambition is borrowed: Reprogram Mindset. Forge Unbreakable Habits. Own Your Freedom.

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By Kh Louglaib

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YOUR AMBITION IS BORROWED: REPROGRAM MINDSET. FORGE UNBREAKABLE HABITS. OWN YOUR FREEDOM.

First Edition. December 2025.

Copyright© 2025 Kh Louglaib.

Written By Kh Louglaib

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Echo in the Hallway

CHAPTER 1

The Phantom Drive: Unmasking the High Cost of Borrowed Ambition

CHAPTER 2

The Social Script: How External Validation Becomes Your Master

CHAPTER 3

The Unshakeable Core: Reclaiming the Power of Intrinsic Motivation

CHAPTER 4

Beyond the Goal: Architecting a Life of Owned Value and Deep Purpose

CHAPTER 5

The Great Deconstruction: Dismantling the Fear of Losing Borrowed Status

CHAPTER 6

The Authentic Compass: Navigating Life with Values as Your True North

CHAPTER 7

The Echo of Influence: Building Authority Through Genuine Connection, Not Control

CHAPTER 8

The Legacy of Ownership: The Enduring Impact of a Life Lived from the Core

Introduction:

The Echo in the Hallway

You have achieved. You have pushed, you have sacrificed, and you have, by all external measures, succeeded. Perhaps you stand on a peak you once dreamed of, a title on your door, a number in your bank account, a curated life on your social feed. But in the quiet moments, when the applause fades and the phone is face-down on the nightstand, there is a hollow echo. A persistent, nagging question that whispers in the silence: Is this truly mine?

This book is for the person who has done everything right but still feels fundamentally wrong. It is for the high-achiever who suspects their relentless drive is not a personal passion but a perpetual performance. It is for the soul weary of chasing a finish line that constantly moves, a finish line set not by their own heart, but by the expectations, fears, and unfulfilled dreams of others. This is the heavy, often invisible burden of Borrowed Ambition.

Borrowed Ambition is the most powerful, yet most fragile, engine in the modern world. It is the drive fueled by the need for external validation—the desperate desire to prove a critic wrong, to finally earn a parent’s nod, or to simply keep pace with a societal script that demands perpetual upward mobility.