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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Comment by Ian Olito on June 28, 2009 at 7:46am: It is easy to be great in America I agree, but people lose their focus.They want a quick fix.

Comment by RODICA CIOBANU on June 28, 2009 at 6:34am: definitely, reading is one of the most important thing to shape one's mind and open one's ways in life; unfortunately, in my country of Eastern Europe, the new generation doesn't like reading anymore, because it's easier for them to get information from visual and audio channels. But nothing can be compared with reading;

Rodica

Comment by Karin Ursula Kluge on June 28, 2009 at 5:41am: Sometimes we mixed the words "simple" and "easy". What I have read during the last twenty years or what I have heard from great Leaders / Speakers / successful people was very "simple". My mind was able to believe it in general but not able to imagine it for ME. And I have spent many years to figure it out. Why it was not "easy", was caused by the fact what I have learned during my first twenty years and then the next ten years were based on the years before. I THOUGHT I couldn't afford this because I BELIEVED what people said about me. Then there was a turnaround and I began to look at me as the person I want to meet and to know best. This journey takes now about 20 years, with many ups and downs but wow what an experience. And after a while life becomes easier, better. The start was simple - a just do it - but the way wasn't that easy but it gave so much to me. And this is a capability that EVERYONE has.

Comment by tom brown on June 28, 2009 at 3:20am: My one hope is that Bank of America shares increase dramatically in value! I may then get some return from my investment in Amarica

Comment by Catherine Mascrès on June 28, 2009 at 3:01am: Many youngsters do as dad does or did, because they were introduced to it since birth and because father is helping to open doors. (can be mother as well/or!). There is less reading now because there are other media which can also open brains and minds, as long as one is choosing programs which are uplifting and not just violence. And no, America is not the best place on earth. The best place is...Earth. Thank you for the good post. Ami. Cath

Comment by Kent Computer Solutions Limited on June 28, 2009 at 2:58am: I believe that learning to read and write correct in one part of life that many people in both the United States and Other Countries have had to deal with.

Withour sufficient reading or writing skills some people may not be able to be "GREAT"; although it is believed by myself and some others that those whom are not so well educated could complete such work as building and manual labour.

The United States has many opportunities that people can use, and take advantage of.
Online businesses based in the states can do very well also because of conversion rates.

~ KCS

Comment by Marie-anne Rouse on June 27, 2009 at 9:04pm: I agree with Rosina and her quote from Mark Twain........"The man who doesn´t read good books has no advantage over the man who can´t read them."

To your Health, Success and Happiness,
Marie-anne @ www.MomIsTheBest.com

Comment by Sandy Falagan on June 27, 2009 at 8:33pm: Books are the key to opportunity. I am re-reading Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. We must examine the subconscious mind, rid ourselves of everything negative in our lives, and maintain success consciousness. Anyone who can read has access to a free library card and has a whole world of ideas to explore. I applaud the volunteers in literacy programs. I am proud to be an American.

Comment by Step Jones on June 27, 2009 at 7:24pm: Like i said, judge, jury and executioner without knowing what you are talking about. Perhaps you should learn how to spell. And if English is not your first language i forgive you, which is something i don't think you know. You know nothing about me and my values, yet you are ready to condemn something you know not of what you are talking. How shallow.