Tuesday, July 13, 2004
what have i learned today?
somewhere along the way, ambition has replaced competancy as a desireable character trait. people go to great lengths to overlook their past mistakes and say "this time, it will be different. all i need is the opportunity." we get into a mindset that tells us we don't need to pay attention to what we are doing now because we are destined for great things. is all this ambition really good for us? i'd say no, because it has left the rest of us in a world of incompetance. people just don't care if they fuck up. they are the spunky newcomer with great things in store for them. why should they have to fix their mistakes? why should they worry about making them in the first place? ambition without any desire for some sort of underlying competance is just idiocy with a fancy name attached to it.
but still, the impatient morons plow forward on ambition alone, leaving a trail of wreakage behind them for the constants, the competants, those of us who try to have at least one foot grounded in the world of reality before jumping. a world full of idiots blissfully unaware of the chaos they are causing. then, when they come crashing out of the dreams they were unprepared to handle, they land on the rest of us, knocking us down with them into the sea of unthinking stupidity they came from.
ambition can do great things, but if you don't have a firm base to launch yourself from you are asking for failure. your homework assignment is to try being competant before you try being ambitious
somewhere along the way, ambition has replaced competancy as a desireable character trait. people go to great lengths to overlook their past mistakes and say "this time, it will be different. all i need is the opportunity." we get into a mindset that tells us we don't need to pay attention to what we are doing now because we are destined for great things. is all this ambition really good for us? i'd say no, because it has left the rest of us in a world of incompetance. people just don't care if they fuck up. they are the spunky newcomer with great things in store for them. why should they have to fix their mistakes? why should they worry about making them in the first place? ambition without any desire for some sort of underlying competance is just idiocy with a fancy name attached to it.
but still, the impatient morons plow forward on ambition alone, leaving a trail of wreakage behind them for the constants, the competants, those of us who try to have at least one foot grounded in the world of reality before jumping. a world full of idiots blissfully unaware of the chaos they are causing. then, when they come crashing out of the dreams they were unprepared to handle, they land on the rest of us, knocking us down with them into the sea of unthinking stupidity they came from.
ambition can do great things, but if you don't have a firm base to launch yourself from you are asking for failure. your homework assignment is to try being competant before you try being ambitious
