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Ambition
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- Parent Category: Advanced Skill Builders
- Category: Advanced Skill Builders: Speaking
- Written by Chris Cotter
Discuss or debate the questions below. Remember to support your answers!
- Do you consider yourself to be an ambitious person? Why/not?
- Do you think that ambition can be taught in school, much like a course in Math or English? Would you want to take such a course? Why/not?
- Does ambition always bring success? Why do you think so?
- If you could take a pill which would result in increased motivation to achieve your goals, would you want to take the pill? Why/not?
- How would you define ambition? How does your definition compare or contrast with the definitions of your classmates?
- What are the positive results, if any, of being an overachiever? Please explain.
- What are the negative results, if any, of being an overachiever? Please explain.
- Who is the most ambitious person you personally know? What is the source of his/her ambition? Please explain.
- Who are three well-known overachievers whom you admire? What reasons make them especially admirable? What makes them ambitious?
- Why are some people determined to succeed at any cost, yet others just about lack any drive whatsoever? Please explain.
- What has a greater influence on a person's ambitiousness, family, genes, or the culture in which he/she is raised? Why do you think so?
- Where do you see yourself in ten years?
- Can ambition be turned off and on like a light switch? Why/not?
- Do you think younger people are inherently more ambitious than older people? Why/not?
- Do you think one's social status as a child, whether rich, poor, or somewhere in the middle, affects his/her ability to succeed later in life? Why/not?
- Who possesses a greater amount of ambition, men or women? Why do you think so?
- Which nations have the greatest number of ambitious people? Why do you think so? Are there any countries which lack overachievers?
- Which races are the most ambitious? Why do you think so?
- Imagine that you're a parent. How could you instill a healthy sense of drive in your child?
- Niccolo Machiavelli said: Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach, we are never satisfied. What does this mean?
