In compliment extern, ’tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
Anyways, if you wear your heart on your sleeve, you show your emotions and let them be known.
Likewise, and coming back to our question, if you wear your ambition on your sleeve, you don’t want to hide it.
Why should you want to hide it, you ask?
Well, for two reasons. One, if you cannot hide your ambition, you may lack self control and self-control is something great to have as a counter balance to being ambitious. The greater ambition one has, the greater self control one may need in order to accomplish that ambition, whatever it is. It sounds counterintuitive, I know.
Second, if you don’t hide your ambition, your opponents might become jealous and they will thwart your plans if they have a chance. This seems straightforward enough, as every man in the office, or, especially, if you have a political career you will be able to testify how important it is to keep your plans to yourself – if you really want to go far.
But the first reason why you should not always wear your ambition on the sleeve is where I want to dwell upon some more. Opponents are opponents. They’re always there. They’re just rivals who more or less want the same thing that you want. When people fail, they always point to sabotage or even backstabbing on the part of one opponent or another. That’s really barking under, or up, the wrong tree. If they want to point a finger, they should point that finger at no one but themselves.
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