Good evening! :)
Lately, I think about the word 'ambition'. What does it (variously) mean? What is its importance? What can we do about or gain from it?
So these are several brain chatters that I collect. Some of them are taken from websites. Enjoy!
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The compelling story test
When you understand why you want to achieve your goal, what the base rate of success is, what the key success factors are, the cost of reaching the goal and the cost of failure, you are in a good position to make an informed decision about whether this goal is realistic for you. Do the answers to these questions add up to a compelling story? Can you convince others that you have a realistic chance of achieving the goal? Can you convince yourself?
Aim high, but don't forget to aim.
(taken from Psychology Today)
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The windowboxes served well for years, but then his failing sight and muscular strength meant that he could not tend even these without great effort. In the end, the tree work, farm work, and gardening all were given up. But he focused on a new activity: listening to "talking books." This man was as happy and fulfilled at 101 as he was at 60. In dealing with the gaps between his desires and achievements, he had an unyielding drive for growth and mastery, a rational mind, and a capacity for change. But these traits were not unique to my father; they are.part of every human being.
(taken from Psychology Today)
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How much do you value a certain thing (a certain sector)? How much do you think that it worths? How much are you willing to accept and face the risks for it?
If you do not find enough value to it, maybe you should find something more valuable to get (to have) ? Lest, you wont invest for anything in your life.
Just enough investation in certain things is important in our lives. It makes us get more grounds to foot. At least, till we die. So, take the chance with it.
That's an important question.
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Judith Rodin and other psychologists who study aging find that growth and mastery are central to older people's sense of well-being. Studies of job satisfaction give convincing evidence that challenge and autonomy make work more satisfying. Even if our work situation is confining, repetitive, and boring, we create a way to grow.
The drive for growth and mastery is, though powerful, curiously bounded. We choose challenges that are difficult enough to perplex and test our powers, yet not so tough that we are likely to face severe or frequent failure (most of the time).
(taken from Psychology Today)
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There are two basic ways of classifying human purposes-competitive versus cooperative, and selfish versus unselfish. Some people are made uneasy by g about winning and losing, and about ambition, almost as if they were taboo words from the world of selfish competition.
Yet winning does not require that we be against someone else; we can reach our goals through competition or cooperation.
(taken from Psychology Today)
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What to reflect:
Is my reluctance to do more efforts on my campus stuffs (administratively and maybe academically too) actually about how I find less values in them?...
Does that mean that I don't value it much than my focus on personal health right now? Is the discrepancy that high? Can it be closer in ratio and make them both high enough without lowering my focus on health into the damnation?...
What can I do about it for now? What are the life-saving point(s) I can do little by little according to my capacity for now?
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Thankyou and goodluck!! đđđđđ¸đşđš