Sometimes ambition is a false friend (essay)

What is ambition? Ambition is a strong desire to do something, usually in a very energetic manner. It is considered good and useful, but however there are limits and when it goes boyond these limits then it turns into a powerful and dangerous self-destructive mechanism, which leads ti envy, agression and hypocrisy absorbing all the happiness and ability ti achieve your goals.

First of all, being ambitios may harm you a lot. When you are diven into ambition you do everyting in ourder to achieve your goals no matter what the obstacles or the victims are. This leads to egoism - forgetting about your friends and family, about life as a whole. Such people live isolated in their inner world and usually don't accept reality what it is - everything is refracted through the prism of ambition. A perfect example is "Macbeth" by Shakespeare, where a nobel man becomes a mass-killer just to acommplish his great desire.

Second, unbalanced ambitious people cannot accept defets - they cannot accept that someone can be better than they are. This causes envy. They don't want to accept the defeat and start to justify themselves in various ways and "hide" behind ambition. Such people cannot accept they've done something wrong. And when a person doesn't accept reality he lies to himself which doesn't lead to anything, but hypocrisy. As Brian Tracy says - people who doesn't confess their mistakes can't go ahead, because admitting your weak areas in front of yourself will give the material to improve. But without weak areas is there anything to improve?

Last, but not least, being unhappy and not achieving your goals may also be caused by ambition. When you are obsessed by it you forget about your feelings, life and emotions and that's why you can't feel the happiness the things you are doing. You start looking like a pre-programmer robot for action. Reality seems lost. But accepting and analyzing reality is the primary key that will help you go on with your plans without having problems of any kind and therefore reaching success.

The key to success consists of several parts balanced together. Ambition is one of these parts, but don't forget to leave okace for the other ones. Otherwise, the key will unlock the wrong door...

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