“I’m not sure why I think of ambition as this lawn decoration, but I find it captures both the mysteriousness as well as the absurdity of ambition. Why do we want the things we want? Why do they rarely turn out like we think?”
Photo-Illustration: by Stevie Remsberg; Source Imagery: New York Public Library Doing the Most is a special series about ambition — how we define it, harness it, and conquer it.
Then, ambition shows up in the various wedges like one of those stone dragon statues with multiple pieces that you can set up on your lawn, or in a fountain, to give the impression of a dragon swimming, like this:Anyway, this is the Ambition Dragon, and wherever it shows up on the pie chart of life, it infuses that wedge with color, intensity, and urgency.
Maybe with each success, ambition turns its nose in a slightly different direction. I’m thinking now of a lawn dragon sniffing around in the grass, hunting out novelty. I don’t think it’s possible to generate ambition, but I do think it’s possible to create a situation where ambition is more likely to poke its head up. I’d thought it would just come for me if I waited around, but I learned that it shows up when you’ve been doing the busywork, creating a routine, taking care of the day-to-day stuff, making a good home for it. Sometimes ambition drives the work, and sometimes the work invites ambition.
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