Saturday, March 18, 2006

Ambition-Knowledge-Curiosity



Ambitious
having a strong desire for success or achievement : requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"



Lately I have been thinking how important curiosity is to knowledge.
Curiosity and knowledge go hand in hand. You won’t get one without the other. More knowledge—more curiosity.


There is so much information in the world and I am fortunate enough to be able to get whatever knowledge I want. I don’t live in a world that prevents me from exploring…everything is in front of me. So many libraries, professors, EVERYTHING.
No excuses. As Abhi would say “excuses are like assholes…everyone has them.”


I don’t want to ignore an event because I am not interested in it, too lazy to ask questions about it, or no time to wander about it. I want to get interested…and not wait for someone else to do something.

Knowledge: The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned.


When I was younger I was curious and ambitions. I would get so excited to bring books from the library, tackle a math problem, know the world. If I had a question I would need to know the answers right away…I would stay up all night to ponder a question.


I would bike to the library and do my own research to get the question answered.
But that slowly declined.


I still have these tendencies but they don’t show up a lot.
But now I want to know the tedious of information.


Curiosity a state in which you want to learn more about something something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting


Everything is tied in. By doing the best you learn more and more. By giving yourself 100% to a task in front of you…you get the best you can out of yourself. With doing the best…it’s like a drug… you want this feeling more and more. You refuse to do a half ass job when you know that by applying yourself a few minutes more you can get the best result.


This is going to be a tough challenge...but I'll try it.

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