As a youngster, my mom always encouraged me to be ambition in everything that I attempt in life, so to say that this kind of thinking has been ingrained into my life would be an immense understatement. But as I’ve grown older and hopefully more mature, I’ve learned that ambition comes packaged with one major proviso: it’s a heck of a lot of hard work.
See, it’s fine to be extremely ambitious (as every Expert should be), but most people will fail at their ambitious journey to Expertisedom if they fail to work extremely hard at those dreams & goals. But that should’ve already been quite obvious to most of you; nobody gets anywhere in life without the hard work.
What I meant to say though, is that ambition in itself is hard work; almost to the extent that it becomes a curse.
I’m an incredibly ambitious person (this book being evidence of that) and a lot of my ambitions tend to not be overly realistic. But many of them are very achievable too, so I’m pretty much left spending my work time in chasing down these ambitions in one way or another. But because I’m so driven in achieving these dreams & goals, I only really have one way to be successful and that’s to continue working hard in satisfying that ambition.
The problem is that ambitious people tend to not be able to shut down completely or just stop having new great ideas which they want to pursue; so it’s difficult for such people to be content in not working very hard within that pursuit. I’d also like to think that part of this ambition and willingness to work harder than anyone else.
Ambition & hard work goes hand-in-hand for Experts and the only way to satisfy this inherit, natural hunger is to throw everything you have into that pursuit.
