Sunday, November 09, 2008

Philosophy Rant: Ambition without a Rationale

Watching this YouTube video Candidates@Google:Barack Obama,I synched upto a particular idea of Obama - "Running for President can't be just about ambition this time; there's got to be a rationale"(19:00 onwards in the video).

I think this is true for any substantial undertaking. Lately, I realize a particular limitation of raw ambition - it can interfere with genuine learning, a free-ranging exploration being a fundamental, atleast an early, part of it. Ambition seems to be fundamentally at odds with learning - not necessarily scholarly but even worldly.

The fallout of such pre-mature ambition is that one seeks success merely for the sake of it.
No, I am not talking about Bill Gates.

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