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We know what we are but know not what we may be - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Death of geneuises
        
        Henry Mosely
        
        Arthur Tudor
- - - - At some point during the summer after 6th grade I took a look at myself and decided I wanted to change. I did not like the person I was.
        
        After finally understanding who I was, that being someone disgustingly weak, I in turn also understood what I may be. This lead me to make some changes in my life most importantly studying more which eventually lead me to being enrolled into the 1st Gymnasium.
    - - The very fact that people choose majors in universities, specializes in certain fields during their education shows that at least they have some idea of what they may be. If one had no idea of what he may be, he or you would decide these things from a flip of a coin. I doubt many in this room have done that.
        
        A lot of choices one has to make in ones life depends on the knowledge of what he may be. Be it the aforementioned choice of education or choice of work or choices of friends i. e. a good man of god would not usually associate with a man of criminal activity.
        
        There are people who do not have any idea of what they might become. I said "I doubt many in this room have done that" and these words were chosen carefully. Although I believe everyone has some knowledge of oneself subconsciously it would be foolish of me to deny the existence of people, who do not consciously know who they are, unable to decide on previously mentioned choices.
    - - History is made by men who believed they were grand even if they didnot achieve their goal
        
        Napoleon
        
        It is not the existence of ego that fails one, but an overinflated ego- a misunderstanding of oneself's greatness.
        In "Napoleon" a book writen by Andrew Roberts it is stated that from a very young a age Napoleon had a sizable ego, but not a misplaced one. During the war of the first coalition he turned his heavily demoralized and underequiped diversion army into the winning force of the war by forcing the Austrians to make peace trough relentless defeats at his hand.
        He quite famosly was qouted to say "I foresaw what I might be. Already I felt the earth flee from beneath me as if I were being carried into the sky."
        Needless to say, he no longer had a sizable ego but one with which he believed to be the greatest general in history, however still not a misplaced one. During future coalition wars, which he and mostly he alone won, his councilship and eventual coronation as emperor of France his ego grew until it outpaced him. Ignoring the protests of his colleagues he invaded Russia, at last, he overestimated himself. According to Brown University over 600 thousand man marched into Russia less then 100 thousand marched out. He thought that he could not lose a war, convinced of his own genius, after all he hadn't lost a war in continental Europe up to this point. In his mind he was a god-like figure. Not only did he think too highly of himself he also started to let go of the very things that made him so great, after all he could not fail. His strategies with which he conquered Europe, he stopped using, after all he could not fail. Once he misunderstood what he was he failed.
        
        Ceaser
        
        William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599) ambitious
        
        At the age of 41 he was awarded the post of praetor - a commander and sent to Spain where he found Caesar discovered a talent for military command which he himself hadn’t known he possessed. According to Rome empire.net, Julius Caesar and the Roman People there was one lesson, Caesar learnt in Spain then it was that war could be politically and financially very profitable, which was important because ever since a young age he believed that the road to power was via wealth. Upon returning to Rome he was given a choice consulship or a triumph, he chose consulship. At this time he was already deeply involved in politics, part of the reason to send him into Spain was to get him further away from politics in Rome. Still this can be seen as his choice to venture even deeper into politics instead of war. He was not a bad statesman by any means, in fact he was beloved by the plebs aka the roman peasantry, however he was blinded by his hubris, he did not see the conspiracy to kill him brewing under his own nose. After all, everyone loved Julius Ceaser.
        Much like with Napoleon, his ego was not misplaced, he was by all means the greatest general of his time. Conquering Gual, part of Britannia, defeating Pompey and Vercingetorix. However he was not as great of a statesman as he thought. As stated in Power Ambition Glory: "Only at the end of his life, at the height of his success and power, did hubris, ego, and the daggers of his assassins converge to destroy him."
        Once he misunderstood what he was he failed.
        
        Only at the end of his life, at the height of his success and power, did hubris, ego, and the daggers of his assassins converge to destroy him.
        Early in his career he happened upon a bust of Alexander the Great. Comparing himself to the great king, Caesar lamented that he was the same age as Alexander had been when he died but that by age thirty-two Alexander had conquered a world and so far he had done practically nothing. Vowing that would change, Caesar entered the Roman political arena.
        
        Some philosopher
      - Ambition for many men in history has been the primary motivation for discovery, exploration, conquest and invovation. What is ambition but the need to become somerhing greater, the knowlodge of what one may be and as such the belief that one may be something greater. If it was not for ambition man would have never made it of Africa, nothing would have driven them or driven them enough.
        
        "...anyone who considers the basic drives of man.... will find that all of them have done philosophy at some time – and that every one of them would like only too well to represent just itself as the ultimate purpose of existence and the legitimate master of all the other drives. For every drive wants to be master – and it attempts to philosophize in that spirit."- Nietzsche
        
        Shakespear
        
        Macbeth
        
        Julius Ceaser
        
        Alexander the Great
        
        In the book Power Ambition Glory by Steve Forbes and John Prevas there is a line:
        "Ambition is among the strongest and most creative forces in the arsenal of human psychology and frequently the reason things get done."
- - - - The USSR
      - Spain
      - Germany
        
        After the formation of Germany, the Germans believed that they would rule the world to some extent they werent mislead in this prediction. The germans by far had the gratest army and miltary talent at the time
      - Rome