Ambition

I spent my entire afternoon and my entire evening working on a project. I like extending my work beyond conventional demarcation for various motives - two in particular: (1) My ability to work is increased; (2) my ambition is more explicitly defined.

Concerning the latter motive, I am convinced that, as I defined my ambition by my work, I am defined by my ambition. The same principle applies to all intelligences: You define your ambition by your work; you define yourself by your ambition.

Without ambition, man is an awfully wasteful organism. I heard of a dialogue yesterday between Thomas Paine and a bystander. The bystander asked Paine of the difference between an educated man and an uneducated man. In response, Paine declared, "The educated man is to the uneducated man as the living are to the dead," or something to that effect. I submit that the same principle applies to man in relation to his ambition - the ambitious man is to the unambitious man as the living are to the dead.

It is my contention that all people, regardless of their current situation, should seek to enlighten themselves in two consecutive matters:

1. For what am I ambitious?
2. What must I subtract, modify, or add to my current program in order to more effectively and more efficiently pursue this object?

If our mental and physical faculties are not consistently expended toward this realm, then what in the name of Krylo Fesenko are we doing?