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That he has no ambitions to heroism or adventure doesn't mean he has no ambitions at all. It just means that his ambitions are of a different type. Maybe he has the ambition to learn everything he can about the plants in his surrounding. Not because he plans to do something specific with that knowledge, but just because he's interested in plants. That certainly would be a nerdy thing to do.

But the fact that he knows so much about plants means also that he is an authority at their healing properties, not in the sense that he actually provides healing services, but if you ask him about if he knows about a plant that helps with headache, he will happily tell you about the plant that grows in the next valley, which is known for its extraordinary headache healing properties. Not because of a drive to help you, but because it is an opportunity to share his knowledge with someone interested in it. Indeed, he will tell you far more about the plant than you want to know, and you'll have problems to stop him. Note that he won't go out and get you that plant, he'll just tell you everything about it.

So he has knowledge that is helpful to others, and is willing to share that knowledge. Although he doesn't share in order to help, he in fact does help by sharing, and that is an attractive feature.

Of course the plants thing is just an example; it't just that he has a passion, and that passion happens to be useful to others, and that earns him the respect of others, even though he himself doesn't do it to impress or please others.

Note also that he won't ever realise that he must be a hero. He will realise that he has to do that heroic thing, but he doesn't see it as a heroic thing, he just sees it as a thing he has to do. But there's this problem, and that problem simply won't go away unless he does something about it. Maybe he doesn't even see the actual size of the problem; maybe his special knowledge shows him a seemingly simple way to deal with it. It's just a test of his knowledge, a possibility to apply it, and it seems easy to do. When it turns out to not be that easy after all, he's already committed to doing that thing.