If you have not already heard, Alex Rodriguez, one of the great baseball players of our time has been suspended for the entire 2014 season. Several things have led to his 211 game suspension, the biggest being his use of illegal performance enhancing drugs. However, what led Alex Rodriguez to using these drugs was his ambitions, such as wanting to be the highest paid major league baseball player ever, making it into the Hall of Fame, and wanting to be remembered as one of baseball's top five best players. As "A-Rod" aged, his game slowly deteriorated even though he was not ready to give up the spotlight and break out numbers. This lead him to banned substances which he thought would help him achieve his ambitions.
While ambitions are good and needed for success, too much ambition can have opposite negative affects. It does not matter if it means taking performance enhancing drugs to stay in your prime or in Macbeth's case, killing off men to ensure the throne. Being over ambitious can lead us to use stained ways of achieving our ambitions and cheating ourselves. Monitoring our ambitions is the most important part of reaching success.
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ReplyDeleteIt is a shame to see that athletes like Alex Rodriguez are ruining their careers by putting performance-enhancing drugs into their bodies. I do not think that athletes that cheat really think of the harmful effects that happen to their bodies and what would happen if they get caught. It is hard to believe that this is the second time that Rodriguez has been caught. One would think that he would have learned after his first offense to not use PED's again. Rodriguez is hurting his team and his reputation by being suspended for the entire season. This is truly a good example of how ambition can have negative effects.
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