Ambition is for suckers?
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- fredddddd
Is ambition and "being famous" and "successful" just for suckers?
At the end of the day, should we just be content with our friends and family and not worry if strangers think otherwise?
Or does ambition lead to success which leads to great experiences and happiness?
I've seen a lot of corny movies on HBO this week:
Wall Street 2
SomewhereAnd they say money and success is over rated. How come people don't know this already?
Discuss.
- akrok0
how the fuck did you get HBO?
discuss.
- reanimate0
Are discussions pointless?
Discuss.
- utopian0
Die America die!
Discuss.
Drgs
- jfletcher0
you probably want some type of ambition in life... otherwise you'll end up pretending you're in highschool for the rest of your life.
Although in the end, whatever makes you happy is probably what you should aim for...
- monospaced0
Money's not overrated. It's quite undervalued. Anyone who says (in my opinion) that money can't buy happiness is too poor to know any better. Fame is awesome; leaving one's mark in history is a nice idea.
- If these are your primary motivating factors in your life, you have already lostlocustsloth
- okay mr. miyagimonospaced
- Perhaps you really do fall into the category of people I described. http://www.qbn.com/t…monospaced
- Oh lord, clueless guy is clueless.severian
- I'm really not this shallow. I am enjoying hard work and the payoff it's brought me, including happiness.monospaced
- But please, I don't want to come off as absolutely clueless. I'm open minded with some wisdom and realistic with my situation.monospaced
- with my situation and place in this world. I also know that money allows me to do the FREE things that make me happy.monospaced
- make me happy.monospaced
- get both, family fun money happiness fame and success
pepe - I agree with mono. People who think money can't buy happiness dont have the ambition to earn it.FawnDog
- Money helps me travel. Experiencing the world fuels my soul. So money is an important factor to happiness.ETM
- money can buy a nice life but fame is bad, right? what famous person can live a normal life?fredddddd
- You never see a sad person riding a jet ski.Frosty_spl
- babaganush0
Dyslexia in Track and Field
Discus.
- moldero0
if you do what you love because you truly love to do it, not for the money or the fame you'll be fine. the ladder doesn't always come and when it does its just a perk, & handling it when it comes is a whole other issue.
ladder, later, ladtdtder, whatever.
- kingkong0
“All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, For they dream their dreams with open eyes, And make them come true.”
― D.H. Lawrence
- ********0
stay hungry, stay foolish
- locustsloth0
It is one thing to pursue happiness, knowing that in most cases you have to accrue some amount of money to obtain the level you seek.
It is another to pursue money and fame and think that happiness will follow.
There will always be more money to be gotten and more fame to be obtained. Pursuit of solely these things is a never-ending and ultimately unsatisfying venture.
Besides, according to a Princeton study, after $75000, the amount of happiness gained by getting more money tapers off
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/0…Also, being content with what one has is not mutually exclusive to pursuing success and wealth. It just means that you don't have an empty pit inside yourself that you are seeking to fill.
- lowimpakt0
"What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. You shouldn’t worry about prestige. Prestige is the opinion of the rest of the world.
[...]
Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you’d like to like.
[...]
Prestige is just fossilized inspiration. If you do anything well enough, you’ll make it prestigious. Plenty of things we now consider prestigious were anything but at first. Jazz comes to mind—though almost any established art form would do. So just do what you like, and let prestige take care of itself.
Prestige is especially dangerous to the ambitious. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, the way to do it is to bait the hook with prestige. That’s the recipe for getting people to give talks, write forewords, serve on committees, be department heads, and so on. It might be a good rule simply to avoid any prestigious task. If it didn’t suck, they wouldn’t have had to make it prestigious.”
- Horp0
What's the question?
- Glitterati_Duane0
21 Ways Rich People Think http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news…
- autoflavour0
I think this thread is a bit too ambitious..
and being told simply, discuss.. to be honest, is kind of condescending .perhaps we should discuss your manners..
- MHDC0
