ABSTRACT
A conversation about how grandiosity manifests is in order, to check for experiential relevance in the client. It is also important, obviously, that coaches address any shaming effect the word grandiosity may have for them, so that they can own and address the challenge it presents. Ambition Without Grandiosity is a journaling exercise that helps creatives better understand why ambition is a good thing, as it helps us persist even after failures. Grandiose artists may start to build a career, but they are miserable because they secretly have a version of Segovia Complex going on in their mind. They must attain a certain level of greatness on a par with so-and-so for their journey to have been worth something at all. If a client is getting hung up with perfectionistic tendencies about controlling the outcome of the work, it is especially applicable. A conversation about how grandiosity manifests is in order, to check for experiential relevance in the client.
