Researchers have spent many years exploring the jungles of the human mind in search of the source of ambition. Theyve found some traits that highly driven people tend to share. Ultra-driven people are often plagued by a deep sense of existential danger. Historians have long noticed that an astonishing percentage of the greatest writers, musicians, artists, and leaders had a parent die or abandon them while they were between the ages of nine and fifteen; The list includes Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Lincoln, Hitler, Gandhi, and Stalin, just to name a few. A parent can also disappear from a childs life psychologically and have the same impact. Highly ambitious people have often met someone like themselves who achieved great success. It could be a person from their own town, from the same ethnic background, or with some other connection, who showed the way and fired their sense of possibility. Source: The Social Animal / David Brooks
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 22:02:03 +0000