What do I think of ambition?
You are not born with it, you must acquire it. It is your dedication to a goal that shows your ambition, at times it may consume you. However, ambition is easily mistaken as willpower. The key difference is the fact that ambition will not sway, willpower can. I often see people have trouble when it comes to being overly competitive or workaholic, and I believe this the result of their ambition being so strong that it overwhelms them and their ethic. It is as dangerous as dipping your being into insanity, the amount you consume is not calculated but forged in random amounts.
Your sitting there playing blackjack, this is your ambition. If you bust you lose, if you lose to the dealer you lose. If you win, you win. Ambition is such a gamble.
When you get ambition you are ambitious. Google defines it as "Intended to satisfy high aspirations and therefore difficult to achieve". It needs to satisfy high aspirations, anything lower will drive your very being to change in a less desirable person.
You will annoy people, you will be ousted if those goals you set your ambitions towards are small.
A simple search engine search for ambitious people describes people completing great feats, however there are those who were ambitious but do not get recognized but rather ousted. Scientists are a perfect example, their methods and goals are huge but it is questioned whether it is "good" or "bad". Methods to make the greatest disease is used to also make the greatest cure, is it safe?
Ambition, use to your discretion.
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