The first thing I noticed while reading The Rise Within was not ambition. It was fatigue. The kind that settles quietly into a person after too many site meetings, too many delayed calls, too many mornings where your shoes carry yesterday’s dust into a new day. I was reading this book late at night with the balcony window slightly open, and at one point, the distant sound of construction work from a nearby building drifted into the room. Metal striking metal. A hollow industr