To become the best in your town, neighborhood, community, country, or the whole planet?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
For me, I think the most noble goal and striving is to become the #1 on the entire planet Earth. The entire globe. To become #1 in your field or domain out of all 7+ billion people in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And once again, it ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about success \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it is all about the striving and attempting! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, you can strive with all your might, soul, and energy to become the richest person on the planet. But without some luck and the right opportunities, you ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t gonna become the richest human on planet earth. For example, Jeff Bezos is insanely smart, dedicated, driven, intelligent, and bold. But of course he had some favorable conditions (starting Amazon at the beginning of the Internet boom) to create what he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For myself, I matured in a period where blogging became a thing. Thus I was simply born at the right time, in the optimal conditions. I also grew up in America, and English is essentially my mother tongue. If I weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t American, and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t speak and write English so fluently, I definitely would not have become the top solo photography blogger on the Internet and planet. <\/p>\n\n\n\nSo what is your ultimate ambition?<\/h2>\n\n\n\nI cannot dictate this for you, but perhaps the goal is to become the best. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Start off small. Start off by becoming the best on the block, then your school, then your local community, then your city, then your state, country, continent, then perhaps the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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