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The saying means that intelligence without ambition doesn’t take you far.
The question is how far one wants to go? And what is ‘far’, just like what is success?
I am not ambitious, have never been. I was made to think that to have ambition is good, but i just dont want to be ambitious. I am happy and content to be where i am, i dont need more, ‘more’ is illusory because we ourselves define that more and it never gets fulfilled, even if it does get fulfilled, there is always the next ‘more’.
I’d rather be a bird without wings. There was a bird Moa which didn’t have wings, but humans made it extinct by hunting. Nature has rare examples too, but humans cannot control their greed, or they don’t know when to be content.
The question is how far one wants to go? And what is ‘far’, just like what is success?
I am not ambitious, have never been. I was made to think that to have ambition is good, but i just dont want to be ambitious. I am happy and content to be where i am, i dont need more, ‘more’ is illusory because we ourselves define that more and it never gets fulfilled, even if it does get fulfilled, there is always the next ‘more’.
I’d rather be a bird without wings. There was a bird Moa which didn’t have wings, but humans made it extinct by hunting. Nature has rare examples too, but humans cannot control their greed, or they don’t know when to be content.