OTOH you could say that it's impressive for someone to have ambitions at that age, and even more impressive that those ambitions don't seem to have changed much, that he's gone a long way towards achieving them, and that it's a shame that isn't a bit more common. Just his ambitions were more grand than many.
I had a classroom colleague who was always quite ambitious and he ended up being the first barrister by age 40 (at the time), is now a Lord and has been involved in some very high profile cases. He wasn't at all an arrogant t***.
Some people are just more driven than others.
Not saying I like JRM but there are two sides...
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