People's ambition is one of the main engines of progress. On the other hand, they often bring us additional difficulties in life. It's time to figure out where the golden mean is and whether we need it at all, informs Ukr.Media.
What is ambition and why is it useful?
Ambition is a character trait that many successful people share. It is the desire to be better, to be successful. It is the desire to gain recognition and achieve a positive result at any cost.
Without ambition, many scientists, businessmen and politicians would not have become who they are. They would not have been able to achieve what they wanted. Being moderately ambitious is useful, because only in this way can a person find success in their endeavors. Sometimes, unfortunately, it is not enough to simply go to the goal through work. You need to do this boldly and boldly, promoting yourself and your ideas. Sometimes we simply need to declare ourselves, shouting publicly who we are, what we want and why we deserve to be called the best.
If you work hard every day but lack passion, courage, and self-belief, you may not be heard of at all. A lack of ambition can cause you to lose motivation.
A logical question: how to become an ambitious person? Unfortunately, most successful people are born that way or their parents instill this quality in them in childhood. If you don’t have it, you can change it. To do this, you need to focus not on what you can lose, but on what you can gain. Overcome the fear of losing what you have. Ambitious people are devoid of it.
Also enjoy your successes, but don't get hung up on them. Try to move on, setting new goals for yourself. If you enjoy victories for a long time, you can lose motivation in development. Roughly speaking, you need to develop a kind of hunger for victories. To do this, watch films and read books about the biographies of successful people. Be inspired by their successes.
What harm can ambition do?
The golden mean is important – you need to be able to work and devote yourself to the task, but at the same time be brave and self-confident. When the balance shifts towards fear, we lose new opportunities, and success can slip away from us. When the balance shifts towards overestimated ambition, this is also very bad. Such people often resort to tricks, manipulations and deception in order to achieve their goals. Of course, this can negatively affect their fate and karma.
Overly ambitious people sometimes want everything at once. This can push them to take risks and adventures. An objective assessment of what is happening is lost. A person sees only the goal, and the means to achieve it lose all boundaries. Also, such people do not know how to focus on the process itself. Only the result is important to them, and this inevitably leads to a loss of motivation in the future. For this reason, powerful people often want even more power, and the very rich and arrogant want even more money. Each new victory gives them an incentive and temporary peace, but each time the period of peace is shorter and shorter. Goals and dreams in this case become more and more daring, dangerous, and complex. The result is simple – total burnout or meeting a goal that will deprive a person of faith in himself or become a curse.
If the only comfort for you is the taste of victory, then it means that you need to work on yourself. Try to find a way to enjoy the competition itself and the process of achieving a goal.
Джерело: ukr.media
