Max Biaggi rides motorbikes for Aprilia in the World Superbike Championship
He has been World champion several times in the former 250cc class of Moto GP
Recently in an interview with an American organisation he was asked why a particular motorbike manufacturer Ducati was not doing well so far this year
He said
"Maybe (Ducati) think about, someone thinking, or other things. I don't know.
Only money, or I don't know, or career in some point, or I don't know.
But the dream must be the focus number one for your goal, for your life.
The goal and dream for you to strive for.
In racing your dream has to be your motivation"
The interesting line for me is the last one
"In racing your dream has to be your motivation"
In life as well your dream has to be your motivation
If you are aiming for an exceptional goal that is
A dream to own a house might be fine for many
A dream to attain a good position for others
Ambition is in our modern world considered to be fine and admirable
In spiritual thinking not so ambition is considered a bad thing
Because so often ambition leads to poor behaviour
Leads to lies, deceit, ruthlessness
Not admirable qualities
And a dream where does that fit?
In the context I am thinking of its fine because the pursuit of a dream is subtly different from ambition
Ambition is at all costs whatever it takes, murder, violence, lies, deceit all are fair game to those with ambition
Dream is an objective we wish to attain
Dream is something we are pulled towards
Something that is with us all the time
We might pursue it at the expense of all other things in our life
Moral and ethical behaviour is often part of our dream
Ambition to often overrules other considerations
Dreams often rule out unreasonable behaviour
In sport the dream is to be champion
It is with you all the time
We can notice how for some it overrides the dream and becomes ambition and winning at all costs
In all sports there are those for whom ambiton overrides a dream
Can you see the difference?
Look at sportsmen and women and see how they are
Is there a real distinction?
Difficult because it can be so subtle
Do you have dreams or are they ambitions?
We say yes there is a difference
Maybe that's one reason we watch sports to see the nice one's win and the ruthlessly ambitious get beaten
1 comment:
it is a great thing to have a dream and also to be in the middle of ones dream. And it still remains a dream, even "living it", as if it is a real dream, one has to work on it all the time, because in what I am experiencing, as soon as I think I hold it in my hands, it becomes material and is not there any longer.
And still, the dream is real !
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