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[tisogai]

Please help me understand the sentence below. Would you please rephrase the underscored part.

Without the stimulus of poverty and ambition, he would never have reached success.

Thanks so much.

[CP]

A stimulus is something that stimulates a response, causes a result.

Here, the writer is saying that poverty (lack of resources) and ambition (desire to achieve) combined to drive the person to succeed.
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