alt Hacker NewsWhat is "too ambitious"?
Are there dreamers who overthink and never get anything done? Absolutely!
Are there also people who do what other people regularly say is impossible? Also an absolute yes.
Ambition has nothing to do with it. There are doers and there are talkers.
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hackable_sand • yesterday at 7:30 AM
Griffith from Berserk is "too ambitious" but yeah they got things done I guess.
eleveriven • yesterday at 8:57 AM
Ambition isn't bad on its own, but when it becomes a substitute for action instead of fuel for it, that's where things go sideways
The word "ambition" comes with a variety of connotations.
>There are doers and there are talkers.
There are those who use their ambition to define a goal and then work tirelessly to achieve it. Think of the mountaineer who plans and trains for decades to eventually ascend Mt Everest.
Then there are those who share their ambition by talking about it. Seeking recognition, etc for "being ambitious". Staying with the mountaineer theme, those who refuse to climb a lesser mountain as not being important enough to expend their precious talents upon. It is these folks that if they somehow make enough money in some form, end up chartering a helicopter and sherpas to climb Mt Everest.