Why it is easy to be great in America?
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Chapter Four: It is easy to be great in America
It is easy to be great in America, because you have opportunity. Just 200 years ago and further back in history, if I were a blacksmith, you would most likely be a blacksmith. If I were a peasant, you would be a peasant. Whatever your father was, you would become.
It is not that way anymore; you can be anything you want to be. While all of your goals and wishes might not come true, you don’t have to be your father. You can study, learn, grow and develop into something you want to be.
We have gone through periods in our history that allow us this freedom and growth.
In the beginning we believed things because we did not have the knowledge to believe otherwise. Our leaders gave us what we should think, and we thought it for the most part.
We believed the world was flat, and the earth revolved around the sun.
We believed not long ago that using leeches to extract blood would cure us of disease.
In 1899 Mr. Charles Duell, the commissioner of the U.S. Patents said, “Everything that has been invented, has been invented.” He said we should close the Patent office down to save the taxpayers money.
Since 1899, a lot of things have been invented. Things your grandmother has seen since she was born in 1908: cars, highways, television sets, computers, search engines--and this is just the beginning. Inventions are going to be coming at us faster and faster as our world knowledge continues to increase. No longer will people be uninformed if they choose, because of technology and the communication options these channels create. Ideas continue to spread, whether leaders want them to or not. Technology communication will continue to expand and broaden and invade our minds with new concepts and ideas.
People are attracted to new inventions and technologies. Your Great-Grandfather Everett was a gadget freak. Everett would bring home gadgets all of the time. He was fascinated by new inventions, even though at that time it might be a machine peeling carrots, or a radio with numbered station dials. He was the first on his block to have this thing called an automobile.
It is easy to be great in America, because a significant amount of people don’t read books after high school. The average American that does read, only reads one or two books a year. The average American family only makes $45,000 a year. The average American cannot run around the block.
Yet this is significantly more than a large portion of the rest of the world. In many places there are no books, there are no economic possibilities like you in America have.
We live in a special place in the world and should recognize what we have to work with in creating a special life.
How easy is it to be great in America? Read more than a few books a year, make more than $45,000 a year, and run around the block a couple times, and you become more than average.
Only about 7% of Americans make more than $75,000 a year. If earning money, keeping your mind alive with reading, and running around the block make you great, it should be easy for you to achieve whatever you would like to achieve.
It is easy to be great in America.
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Please go to DaddyHowDoYouKnow.com for a complete book for free, if you buy one for your coffee table that would be great!
Please connect as a friend, thank you.
Chapter Four: It is easy to be great in America
It is easy to be great in America, because you have opportunity. Just 200 years ago and further back in history, if I were a blacksmith, you would most likely be a blacksmith. If I were a peasant, you would be a peasant. Whatever your father was, you would become.
It is not that way anymore; you can be anything you want to be. While all of your goals and wishes might not come true, you don’t have to be your father. You can study, learn, grow and develop into something you want to be.
We have gone through periods in our history that allow us this freedom and growth.
In the beginning we believed things because we did not have the knowledge to believe otherwise. Our leaders gave us what we should think, and we thought it for the most part.
We believed the world was flat, and the earth revolved around the sun.
We believed not long ago that using leeches to extract blood would cure us of disease.
In 1899 Mr. Charles Duell, the commissioner of the U.S. Patents said, “Everything that has been invented, has been invented.” He said we should close the Patent office down to save the taxpayers money.
Since 1899, a lot of things have been invented. Things your grandmother has seen since she was born in 1908: cars, highways, television sets, computers, search engines--and this is just the beginning. Inventions are going to be coming at us faster and faster as our world knowledge continues to increase. No longer will people be uninformed if they choose, because of technology and the communication options these channels create. Ideas continue to spread, whether leaders want them to or not. Technology communication will continue to expand and broaden and invade our minds with new concepts and ideas.
People are attracted to new inventions and technologies. Your Great-Grandfather Everett was a gadget freak. Everett would bring home gadgets all of the time. He was fascinated by new inventions, even though at that time it might be a machine peeling carrots, or a radio with numbered station dials. He was the first on his block to have this thing called an automobile.
It is easy to be great in America, because a significant amount of people don’t read books after high school. The average American that does read, only reads one or two books a year. The average American family only makes $45,000 a year. The average American cannot run around the block.
Yet this is significantly more than a large portion of the rest of the world. In many places there are no books, there are no economic possibilities like you in America have.
We live in a special place in the world and should recognize what we have to work with in creating a special life.
How easy is it to be great in America? Read more than a few books a year, make more than $45,000 a year, and run around the block a couple times, and you become more than average.
Only about 7% of Americans make more than $75,000 a year. If earning money, keeping your mind alive with reading, and running around the block make you great, it should be easy for you to achieve whatever you would like to achieve.
It is easy to be great in America.
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Comment by TOPACIO on June 28, 2009 at 4:55pm - HOLA A TODOS, VICTOR GRACIAS X PENSAR SIEMPRE EN MI BESOS
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Comment by Mary G. Mora on June 28, 2009 at 4:35pm
- We still have freedom in America! No one is going to stop you from making your own decisions and working towards a goal. Listening to and allowing others to hold you back by what they've experienced is not going to help you. Read and learn how others made it and believe that you too can achieve what you set your mind to become! And best of all you have the opportunity to be great to your family and friends no matter what career path you take!
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Comment by John Finley on June 28, 2009 at 4:26pm - ps. we live in a country where artist that poison our youth is glorified and artist that are conscious go unnoticed. For instance Common vs. 50c, the example signifies how our media is poisoning our youth. We need to re evaluate our impact on the youth of this country and try to teach the kids that righteousness is cool as well. See "Golden Era Hip Hop" 1985-90. Music is a big influence on our culture, and it is at an all time low in this country right now. The point is you can give trash money and it is still trash. Give the greatness tag to great people.
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Comment by John Finley on June 28, 2009 at 4:13pm
- We can be great in our own mind, it is up to the individual to decide that they are great. A lot of people have money and low self esteem, then there are others that have very little and have a lot of confidence. I think loving yourself is being great. Rap artist like lil wayne are rich, but very sick in the mind, then there are school teachers that make very little and are really great. I don't think money makes you great, of course if you are great already it can make you greater in the fact that you will be able to spread your greatness over a broader area with it. I can't say that a thug that has money is great. Greatness is defined by righteousness!
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Comment by EntrepreneursCoachGarethEmberton on June 28, 2009 at 2:20pm - Greetings from Great Britain!
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Comment by EntrepreneursCoachGarethEmberton on June 28, 2009 at 2:19pm
- is easy to be great any where on the globe if you want to be great!
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Comment by Ronnie Sole on June 28, 2009 at 12:33pm - Hi, no matter what one does as a home based business one must do something with their earnigns to earn more earnings. I invite you to www.mytirn.com/01-56775 and if you have questions aftre registering you can email me at curundumoe@aol.com Ronnie Evers
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Comment by Lisa Stadtmueller on June 28, 2009 at 12:22pm - It's easy to be great in America because it is the land of opportunity...you are only limited by your commitment to hard work and personal achievement. Barack Obama is always stressing this point and is an inspiration to many kids because of the way he rose from a single parent household to the President of the United States.
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Comment by Sean J. Kennedy on June 28, 2009 at 9:55am - Although I prefer to walk I know I can run around the block. In the last year I read 3 or 4 books and combined my wife and I earn close to $75k annually, wow it feels good to be great ;)
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Comment by Marjorie Janczak on June 28, 2009 at 8:06am -
My believe is that "Greatness", depending on what it means to the individual, can be achieved anywhere in the world.
It must not just be in America because there are great people all over the world and not all of the them are from, or reside in America.
What is more important in achieving the greatness of your choice is the mindset you have.
Having the mindset for greatness is what matters and then it all falls into place.
On the other hand, when we are seeking greatness, we must note that it is not all about the money.
Think first of what legacy you will want to leave behind for generations to remember.
Integrity, credibility and selflessness, that to me is true GREATNESS!
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