Acharya Prashant explains that ambition is essentially a large-scale form of desire, which is rooted entirely in the past. He asserts that the human brain only possesses memory, and any future it projects is merely a reflection or reconfiguration of past experiences. Because the brain cannot desire what it has not experienced or known, all desires, goals, and ambitions are repetitions of the past rather than something truly new. He defines hope as the desire for something to happen and apprehension as the desire for something not to happen, both of which are products of conditioning. Acharya Prashant concludes that while ambition seeks a scripted future based on old memories, true intelligence leads to a wonderful and fresh future that arrives as a surprise gift, unrelated to past planning.