With or Without Ambition

[Alan Armstrong]

Do martial artists need to be ambitious?

Is it possible to be a successful martial artist without being ambitious?

Founders of styles must be considered ambitious or perhaps not?

How would your martial art skills be without it?

[sensei8]

Without ambition, there's no reason to ever step on the floor, just as long as the ambition is knowledge and experience based; everything else, i.e., fame and/or money and/or rank and/or notoriety, destroys ones own MA journey...imho!!

[singularity6]

I think that depends on what you define as a martial art. Participating a couple times a week at a belt mill will grant you a black belt, and would only really require a bit of time and (probably a significant amount of) money. Does that make you a martial artist?

[Alan Armstrong]

I don't have any martial art ambitions, for fame, money, notoriety or rank; is that normal?

I do like learning and sharing but ambitions; cannot think of having any at this present time; is that weird?