18 Feb 2010 Do childhood ambitions really affect your life?

14,000 11 year olds were asked about their career ambitions in 1969 – How did their lives turn out.

A study by the Centre of Longitudinal Studies has gone back to these individuals and asked them about how their lives turned out.

It seems there is a relationship between those that were ambitious as children and those that achieved high levels of career success. You can find out more about the study here.