Research: A Brief Life Tends The Ambitious
by Prestigious career and high salary does not guarantee the quality of life and happiness.
the other side behind the brilliance of one’s career. They are ambitious, achievement, have prestigious careers tend to have poorer healthand lower life expectancy.
Professor University of Notre Dame, Timothy Judge uses data from the Terman study to trace the life cycle of 717 highly skilledindividuals. He did more than seven decades, by measuring the ideals of participants from childhood to the beginning of theircareers.
Of their educational backgrounds ranged from completing high school diploma to enter some of the best universities in the world,such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell,Northwestern, Berkeley, and Oxford.
Ambition is predicted by individual differences, such as neuroticism and general mental ability, and socio-economic background: their parents’ job is prestigious.
The result showed that although these people have a myriad ofaccomplishments in school and at work and have high salaries,they are ambitious tend to live shorter lives and are not happier than their peers who do not have the motivation is too high.
Reporting from The Atlantic, the people are high achievers to sacrifice their quality of life for success.
Therefore, Judge suggests, parents should know that ambitionhas limitations. If your greatest desire for your children is that theylive a happy and healthy, you probably will not be too stressed totheir professional success.
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