The power of ambition

It is very common to find people who confuse the meaning of the word ambition, associating it with something bad or with a negative connotation. Our culture and society have educated us from childhood not to be ambitiousthat we should not pretend to want more than necessary, focusing on the fact of being “humble” constantly.

The problem is that also We have been taught to confuse and associate humility with the absence of abundance, scarcity or poverty. Do you agree with this conception of both terms?

An article that I was able to discover on Wikipedia cataloged and defined ambition solely as something that harmed human beings., a negative, bad and perverse feeling that originates in our minds when we seek to want more. Furthermore, he added that by living and feeling this feeling we harmed others.

The problem within this small definition and concept, which most of us have integrated into our lives at some point, is that Ambition can be confused with greed.

That’s why, I would like to invite you to reflect and understand the true concept of ambitionso that it stops limiting you in the personal sphere of your life, as it has been doing until now, preventing you from achieving many of your goals or dreams.

What is ambition?

We would like to be able to make it clear that The concept and meaning of ambition is not the blind desire to obtain goals such as wealth or power.regardless of the means to achieve them.

It is very common to think that an ambitious person will go above others to achieve their goals, but this is not true. In fact, On many occasions, the desires, goals and dreams of these people will be oriented to the benefit of other human beings.

It is also good to be aware that Ambition is not the desire to grow indiscriminately just because, or meaningless. We could say that it is rather the desire that as human beings we have to seek protection, security and well-being.

Ambition allows us, in this regard, to amplify these security objectives and achieve them on a larger scale for our lives. It is good to stop confusing ambition with defects that we human beings have.

An ambitious person requires and needs a great cause to guide them. through a barrier as immense as adversity, allowing you to overcome all types of obstacles, fears and remain willing to live for your cause for others and achieve it. Can you imagine how this could be achieved without ambition?

An example of ambition

To understand what ambition is, I would like to invite you to learn about the case of Mason Wartman. This young American always wanted to have his own pizzeria. He was an entrepreneur of a prestigious brand on Wall Street for a while and motivated by his ambition, he decided to take risks, dare and fulfill his personal dream.

His day to day life was getting better and better. He was dedicated to selling slices of pizza for 1 dollarand thanks to its prices that were so accessible to many people, it could feed many of those who had almost no resources to survive.

One day, a client proposed a brilliant ideawho would later turn his business into his most cherished dream: customers could pay in advance so that a homeless person could eat at the end of the day.

Mason decided to immortalize in his establishment the generosity and love of the customers who came to his business. and they donated each of those portions, placing a colored post it. Today, Mason’s pizzeria is completely covered in those colorful pieces of paper full of love and human warmth.

Ambition and motivation

In the previous example we can clearly see how ambition could create a wonderful project. And this is what ambition is about, an engine that drives us, that motivates us to achieve our goals. Even in Buddhism, where humility is preached, they advocate a healthy ambition to be better people every day. Furthermore, they also claim that humility is not related to lack of wealth. The problem is in our relationship with that wealth.

If ambition makes us step on others to succeed, that’s where the problems begin. In this case we would be talking about an unhealthy and malicious ambition. But If our ambition is for the benefit of others, we can be happy to be on the right path. May ambition lead us to improve ourselves day by day, favoring ourselves and others.

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