Ambition
Link:http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/03/07/ambition-success-happiness-not-quite/
SUMMARY
In this article, Anne Fisher explains how sometimes ambition doesn't always lead to better lives. She spoke of Timothy Judge, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza's College of Business, and how he tracked 718 ambitious people and a group of not ambitious people. He found that the ambitious people did end up with better-paid jobs, but, on average, they did not live as long nor had a happier life as the controlled group of laid-back people.
MY OPINION
I believe this article proves very true. Many people in today's world are too focused on material things. They tell their children that they must work hard to go to a good college, so they can get a good job, so they can raise a family, but sometimes this is just a vicious cycle. People must focus on things they love to do, and they must enjoy life. If your ambition is to have a certain job for the money, that is not a good reason to strive for success. People's ambitions should be shifted to happiness, for oneself and others. If you do what you love, everything else will fall into place.
