Ambition is a very stale thing. It’s a dead thing. Do not forget where it comes from; it comes from your past in the jungle. You are conditioned to be desirous, and social forces just encourage you to be even more desirous of the same things that you have been wanting since a million years. The same things.
This summary is AI-generated. Please read the full article for complete understanding.
Questioner: My question is about ambition. What is ambition, and how can you create it within yourself? How to create such a force within that will help you tackle all the failures and obstacles in life? When we hear the so-called success stories of successful people, we find that they had a lot of pitfalls in their life, they had a lot of hurdles that they faced, but it was ambition that helped them reach where they are. So, how do you develop that force within?
Acharya Prashant: We will take that. It’s a very, very important question; it’s a life-changing question. You know, you have your own life to live, first of all, and nobody can be fulfilled reaching a place somebody else has reached. You are born differently. What fulfills one cannot fulfill the other. What’s more, you do not even know whether the other is fulfilled.
You have somebody in front of you who is touting himself as a success story. “I am a success story. I had ambitions, and fueled by ambition, I braved all the challenges in life, and then I have reached this particular place, so I am a superstar. Come on, follow me. I present myself as a role model.”
