What does ambition mean

Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum. I mentioned to you the other day the issue of excellence and the issue of the company of people who will stretch you. Not the company of people who you coast along, mediocre people. We're talking about the company of excellent people because you grow only in an atmosphere where you are stretched. If there is no challenge in your atmosphere, you will never grow. Right? If you look at trees that are grown in a greenhouse, they look very lush because of the controlled environment. They're getting nutrients at the right time. They're getting water, this, that. A lot of greenery. They look very lush and very healthy. But you take the same tree, you put it outside, one gust of wind, it falls flat because there's no root system. Roots are not developed because roots develop only with stress. Roots develop for two reasons. One, roots develop when they go searching for water in the earth. So when there is not enough water, the root goes deep to hit the underground aquifers. And the second reason roots grow is to hold the tree in place and that happens when there are winds. If there are no winds, there's no need for roots. You need the roots when there are winds. So, that is the same situation with human beings. If you are among people who are just like you and you are very comfortable with them, you will never grow. You need to be with people who are superior to you, who are better than you. That's when you grow because you get stressed. You need to be with people who are superior to you, who are better than you. That's when you grow because you get stressed. So I mentioned that in detail in my last khatras. I won't go into that, but I thought let me give you some live examples to show you what ambition and passion looks like. Right? So do this as a test. All your friends who you hang out with, ask them what's your ambition? What are you passionate about? Right? Let them, you ask them, you tell them. What is your ambition? What are you passionate about? And then see if it compares to something which I am going to show you just now. Because as I told you the other time, if you are with people who have no ambition, who have no passion, run like hell. Get out. Your life is in danger. Your future is in danger. You are in danger. Because for everything there is a period, there is a time period, there is a window of opportunity. Once that shuts, you can cry till the cows come home. Nothing is going to happen because the opportunity is gone. You have to take advantage of the opportunity at the time it is there. It doesn't come because you want it. You have to take advantage of it where it is there. Otherwise you will stay where it is. Otherwise you will stay where you are. Now give me two examples. Since you guys are interested in sports, I did a bit of research. Michael Jordan, who is supposed to be, he's called the greatest basketball player of all time. He led the Bulls in six NBA championships. He says, my whole life had always been about being the best basketball player that I could be. He said, I had absolute tunnel vision. Everything was channeled towards making me the best basketball player that exists. And that's how he became. Kobe Bryant, as I told you, they say, his own teammates, they said, we would win a match. Listen carefully. We would win a match somewhere. We would come back home. All of us, we have won the match, obviously come with the money and this and that. We go for a party or we go home and Kobe would go to the gym. He would not go home. He would go to the gym. What's he doing in the gym? He's doing a gym. What's he doing in the gym? In the gym, he's practicing the two shots in that match, which he missed. Now think about that. In the whole match, how many shots would he have played? You know, God knows, right? And the missing those two shots did not do any harm to the match. They still won the match. But he said, no, I missed the two shots.