The Secrets of Ambition - My Memories and Experience
The TIME magazines cover page highlighting the Secrets of Ambition attracted me and the contents briefly analyzing what separates the life of go-getters from its also-rans by Jaffery Klugar was interesting.
"A fire in the belly doesnt light itself. Does the spark of ambition lie in genes, family, culture or even in some ones own hands? He argues whether science has the answer. But the answer is beyond scientific explanation if one could accept his arguments. What makes twins to have different abilities and ambitions is well argued. Though they might have had the same historical genetic factors there experience in their childhood might influence their ambitions in later days.
Another interesting argument was the fact that within everyone a king is hiding and it only requires the right moment for him to emerge. My memories went back to my school days where I was sidelined from leadership roles for some reason or other and I didnt have the will to overcome those stumbling blocks to prove myself worthy. Though as a boy scout I have had a lot of adventures in camping and various other missions something was always held me back.
But I felt a sudden spurt and became the senior student unions vice president. For the first time I had a taste of leadership role and that prompted me to aim at more achievements. I interviewed in the same year of my election to the student unions office a Norwegian couple who were journalists and that interview covering Norwegian culture and lifestyle appeared in a small time publication Arivali from the Jaffna peninsula which was at that time controlled by LTTE.
Thereafter I started in a couple of years my own Peace Mission and for my initiative I was awarded the Lifting-Up the World with Oneness-Heart Award from the Sri Chinmoy Centre at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
When I was reading the The Secrets of Ambition I personally felt uplifted and had the elated feeling that the King in me had emerged.
About the Author: Rajkumar Kanagasingam is the author of the fascinating book - German Memories in Asia A collection of memories by the author in his discussion with German university students who have been volunteering in Asia on the sensitive issues of Early Human Migration, Asian & European historical events especially the German since the Roman Empire era to the times of First & Second World Wars and about the Germans around the world and their Migrations, Life styles, Encounters and Assimilations since the ancient times, his experiences in an American NGO as an officer in the rebel-held war-torn jungles and then in a tsunami relief mission there with German students, and the German students life and fashion in Asia....
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