The Thematic Statement: Ambition May Lead To Negative Outcomes

This whole experience started in my backyard. I was playing basketball and I ended up landing wrongly on my foot. My basketball hoop had been set up in a narrow space which also had mostly uneven ground that surrounded the court. I went up for a lay-up and as previously mentioned, landed wrongly to the point that I was in great pain from the injury. Also earlier that day I had jammed my finger, also playing basketball. That jammed finger should have been a sign for me to stop playing, but I thought it would wear off and I would be all good. To my great disadvantage I kept on injuring the ankle and my finger to the point where I could hardly play. So through this experience I had to learn how important it is to let your injuries heal.

Ambition is a strong desire to do or achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work. To have ambition means you will never give up on something you are working towards harder than anything else. Fate determines everything. In my opinion, if one thing happens every action after that depends on that one thing that happened.

When the desire to achieve is greater than the foregone conclusion people begin to risk what they usually would not. Ambition is defined as a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work. In both Shakespeare's Macbeth and Jon krakauer's Into Thin Air ambition is what drives characters to achieve and to ignore consequences

While life often does reward ambitious people, being too ambitious can be dangerous and might end up destroying a person. An example from the story is Tom Benecke was very passionate about his work he decided to make a side project to boost him ahead of his co-workers for a promotion. He was close to finishing his work for his boss to read over the weekend and passed up an opportunity to go out with his Wife to a movie. More evidence from the story that he was too ambitious for his work is Tom climbed onto a ledge to retrieve his work while almost slipping and falling multiple times. Tom was out on the ledge because a draft picked up his analytical paper he worked on for two weeks and carried it out of his apartment window and onto a ledge

In this world, a lot of people want to become sports players, Musicians. Many people attempt to succeed by creating goals that’s high, but there are risks involved with it that can affect your goal during your voyage. This has been a problem for those who have ended up failing because they tried to reach a goal which is less likely of being accomplished, and the result would affect them.Most people during the Journey might lose hope in their dream because it might seem impossible to meet.Therefore aiming for higher goals can result in more failures than lower goals.

In the article Ambition by Perrie Klass, she explains why there would be some negative association with being ambitious. Klass points out that most people think ambition is a negative trait because it was seen as being selfish, “It was still a nasty sort of attribute but nasty attributes were good because they helped you look out for number one.” Also in the article when talking about ambition in women, it is seen as an undesirable trait; “…The word "ambitious" linked to a "career woman" suggested that she was ruthless, hard as nails, clawing her way to success on top of bleeding bodies of her friends.”

Ambition is a very important thing to have if one wants to be successful. Some people view ambition as evil because it can cause a person to strive for corrupt positions, as Julius Caesar did. For others, ambition is necessary to gain fame, glory, and status in life, as the famous rappers Wale, Meek Mill, and Big Sean have explained in their hit song “Ambition.” I believe that ambition is a driving force in life. Ambition has two polar connotations: ambition can push one to strive for their own personal gain and hoarding of wealth, or to seek fame, glory, and honor.

Ambition brands its mark on the hearts of those confident enough to strive, overcome and

The dread of doing well in life is rooted deep in the unconscious. Nobody deliberately sets out to wreck his or her own career. And people are so adept at rationalizing their own mistakes, or misinterpreting those of others, that fear of success can be hard to distinguish from; incompetence, arrogance, inattention, burnout, or any of the 101 other gremlins that can send a career into a tailspin. Often fear of success shows up in the exceptionally talented as a long pattern of underachievement, of clubbing along in the same old rut. James O'Connell, a psychologist says "People who have an unconscious fear of success won't set ambitious goals for themselves, so they achieve far less than they're capable of and this is the tragedy of it, because ultimately it stops people from getting what they really want or even from asking for help. Psychologists have been studying the unconscious fear

In halftime shootaround I injured myself by twisting my ankle it felt like my whole foot got turned all the way around, when I hit the court from a jump shot, I was on the floor holding my ankle when my coaches came running at me like I

Ambition does not mean success, nor does it make one productive: ambition is just desire. Without

Ambition is determined from where you come from. People who lives in the ghetto part of town often want success but the people around them influences them to become bad. We might not realize this but we act accordingly to the people who we hang out with. If you hang out with

“Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more” is a quote by Oscar Wilde. Ambition is a driving force required to succeed. It gives you a reason, a goal and a will to succeed. The greatest minds in history were able to do what they did because of ambition. They had a goal that they wanted to accomplish, and to do that they needed the push. I believe that ambition is the word that describes me as a person.

On the next Monday, I ended up leaving school and going to the ER, because it hurt that bad. My ankle was so swollen it looked like there was a softball on it. The doctor that helped me told me it would have been better if I broke my ankle rather than sprain it.

The Oxford Dictionary defines ambition as, “a strong desire to do or achieve something.” Such a simple dictionary definition does not display the intensity of the various meanings and possibilities behind this word. Most frequently, “ambition” possesses a very positive connotation in our society. This force is thought to be what allows humans to reach their goals and therefore what allows society to improve. However, humans do not usually think of the possible negatives that derive from the power of ambition. In order to feel as if they have brought purpose and meaning to their lives, human beings strive to complete actions which will leave a lasting impact on the world. Ambition stems from this belief that many humans possess. While ambition motivates humans to achieve their goals, possessing such a strong drive often leads to negative consequences for both themselves and their peers. As humans, we must understand that our ambition possesses a strong role in the way we shape our world, so we must carefully control this quality, as it is not purely positive or negative.