From childhood, every child is taught: in order to achieve something, you must first want it. It is understandable: proper goal-setting is already half the work done; It is important, recognizing your needs and comparing them with your capabilities, to find the optimal algorithm of actions to achieve the desired result.
In the business West, permeated by the spirit of entrepreneurship, children from school are taught to properly prioritize and achieve financial prosperity. So why in our Russian society they are so hostile towards this model of behavior, considering that an ambitious person is a deviation from the norm, often a miserable careerist, schemer and owner of other unflattering epithets? In this article we will try to figure out what is ambition, is it good or bad quality, and whether the achievement of all imaginable heights brings happiness.
Ambition is a quality similar to ambition, it is a constant desire for something more than there is at the moment, a constant effort (both mental and physical) to achieve your goals. Ambitious - it means a motivated for success, sociable person, never resigned to defeat. From an economic point of view, such people are simply indispensable for teamwork,
their desires constantly spur them on, forcing them to act and achieve their goal. It would seem that some positive aspects. From the point of view of society, an ambitious person is the result of successful socialization, when an individual adopted the rules and rules prevailing in society and began to play on them. Indeed, no one will say about a successful person: "he is asocial" or "he is not law-abiding." On the contrary, success is inextricably linked with following the ethical framework inherent in a particular class. As we see, from the point of view of public opinion, an ambitious person is a person worthy of respect and imitation.
However, as with every phenomenon, ambitiousness has a flip side. What is she like? So, firstly, often goals are achieved by not entirely honest means. “Walking on their heads” - so often they characterize unprincipled, over-preserving careerists who, for the sake of their selfish motivations, forget about all morality and the existence of other people. Callousness, cruelty, hypocrisy, servility - all these negative qualities are acquired in the pursuit of material wealth.
What is the recipe for the perfect combination of healthy ambition and high
moral principles? A person must find this balance himself, and neither the literature from the series "All About Human Psychology", nor the advice and guidance of acquaintances will help. The main thing is to remember that the highest value in this life is life itself and loved ones nearby, and the material and career components are in secondary positions. If you swap them, it is unlikely that this will turn out something good. Authority and recognition will not save from loneliness and disappointment, and
material values can never fill a spiritual void. Therefore, from the foregoing, we can conclude that an ambitious person is not necessarily a negative character, the main thing is that his claims and actions do not infringe on the interests of those nearby.