Of course, I have heard many times thatAmbition is an ambiguous concept, and for each person they are associated with certain pictures. Someone immediately represents a businessman heading over and unable to see beyond his nose, that is, his career. And someone sees an ordinary person who dreams of breaking out into a bright future with the help of one of his strong desires.
As always, let's turn to the scientific rationale,where ambition is, firstly, the desire to reach some heights, on which few climb, and secondly - heightened self-esteem, as well as self-esteem multiplied by a hundredfold.
Определения находятся на двух диаметрально opposite sides. With one of them, ambition is good, on the other it is bad. We have to figure out where such a substitution of concepts comes from, when one term is interpreted quite differently. Perhaps we do not understand something? We will understand.
So, if we asked for several centuriesback from a Frenchman, a Pole, an Englishman, or a Russian, what is ambition, you would get an unequivocal answer - swagger, arrogance, lust for power, arrogance. This term has the same meaning when translating from the Latin language (ambitio). An ambitious person is perceived as a rogue who seeks profit and is willing to sacrifice anything to satisfy his needs.
A little later, with the development of capitalism, the populationEurope (we are talking about the top and advanced youth) begins to use the "ambitious man" as a compliment to those who have achieved success in a certain area, earned money and thus became famous at least within their own environment.
Thus, ambition is not onlythe desire to achieve what others do not have, but also to some extent vanity. It turns out that in our country now no one notices that by saying one category, we give it non-identical definitions. This means that each of us speaks his own language, relying either on explanatory dictionaries or on films and series that came from the West.
An interesting study was conducted by Americanscientists whose conclusions should be obvious. It's no secret that an ambitious person, trying to achieve recognition and success, often gets into stressful situations and gradually accumulates negative emotions in himself. Due to chronic fatigue, the body wears out, and, sadly, such people die faster than their peers who do not have such significant success.
But what is ambition without result? An empty sound.However, for the result to be, it is necessary to make at least some effort, and not just consider yourself a person with ambitions. Ambitions are not instilled in us from birth, they appear in the process of socialization of the individual, when we establish connections, establish contacts and make progress in any area.
Thus, it turns out a vicious circle - a person who has achieved something, automatically tries to set big goals for himself, since he has already taken place in a certain area of life.
Then ambitions take over and out of positivetraits that stimulate us to work (labor ennobles a person) turn into a threat to the individual. The fact is that according to the results of American studies again, ambitious people are less likely to have families, since parents, most likely, since childhood, have clearly and clearly set priorities in which career growth is everything.
Often, along with the furious desire for success and money comes selfishness, or rather, it comes into full force. But selfishness is useful only in limited doses, so, anyway, health suffers.
So what is ambition?If scientific, then evil is universal. And honestly, let everyone decide for himself. However, it is in our power to develop this quality to stimulate oneself to action rather than to swagger and cultivate excessive delusions of grandeur.
