Ambition - What is it Really?

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The word "ambition" makes frequent appearances at motivational and personal growth workshops. Great ambitions are considered a virtue and an essential stepping stone to success. But if we look at the state of the planet today, a century's worth of human beings' ambitions have brought the environment to a point of collapse. Global warming, sea level rise, and a host of alarming situations have already begun to materialize. But this is not a new phenomenon: the history of our species has seen frequent episodes of disaster induced by human ambition. Hitler was ambitious, and his ambition brought about one of the worst tragedies in human history. But we can at least be thankful that Hitler's end came before the birth of nuclear weapons. The result of such single-minded, prejudiced ambition equipped with today's technology would be worse than a hell on earth.

So, is ambition a bad thing? No. "the bane of the world is just that human beings are working with limited individualistic ambition." When ambition is guided by a vision for well being, our activity becomes a powerful possibility to create our destiny.