Ambition

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.