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Most people -- husband guesses 80% -- are basically unambitious. This includes me. If life is ok, rent is getting paid, everyone& #39;s healthy, nothing hurts -- then we& #39;re not going to bother working super hard. We& #39;d rather be comfortable.
I don& #39;t think this is immoral. If you can provide enough value to provide for your needs honorably without breaking a sweat, IMO that& #39;s valid.
But there are people, and they& #39;re not THAT rare, who actually have ambitions. Everything can be fine and they can still be like "gotta do better".
Not all of them are rich or famous, not by a long shot.
Not all of them are rich or famous, not by a long shot.
But if you& #39;re self-made rich, you *DEFINITELY* give a shit about something besides comfort. I mean that literally, I think, without caveats.
You can totally get rich by fraud or other unethical behavior. Not all rich people are admirable. But even a fraudster could at some point just save effort by...not doing that and just getting a normal job. Big fraudsters *do* have ambition, just not the healthy kind.
Anyhow, the reason this is relevant is that we tend to assume "people work a certain way", and that way is the way we work (and maybe our friends and family.)
I always assumed that the motivation for people& #39;s behavior was stuff like "to fit in with the crowd, to save effort, to feel good in the moment." Everybody wants to believe they& #39;re an exception to the rule, but mostly, in my experience, they& #39;e not.
BUT. that& #39;s just not true when you& #39;re dealing with an ambitious person, a person who wants to achieve "greatness" in some way.
If Elon Musk is doing something you think is dumb, there could be a couple things going on.
You could be wrong, and the thing is actually smart for reasons you don& #39;t understand.
He could be wrong, and sincerely think it& #39;s a good idea.
You could be wrong, and the thing is actually smart for reasons you don& #39;t understand.
He could be wrong, and sincerely think it& #39;s a good idea.
He could even have psychological hangups that compel him to do the dumb thing against his better judgment.
But he DEFINITELY doesn& #39;t have the psychological hangup of "just do what everyone else does to fit in and be liked."
He& #39;s Elon Musk. He doesn& #39;t work that way. There& #39;s no way he could do the things he does if he worked that way.
He& #39;s Elon Musk. He doesn& #39;t work that way. There& #39;s no way he could do the things he does if he worked that way.
(Yes, I know he cultivates his image. Image management is a broad category, and not all of it is the same as "just try to be liked and normal" in the diffuse, conformist way that non-ambitious people do it.)
