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!
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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 Step Jones on June 27, 2009 at 6:50pm - Perhaps David should read the entire book, it is free at, "DaddyHowDoYouKnow.com" i was making a point about living life and the opportunities people have. Since i live in America, i thought i would write about something i know intimately. The entire book is about the future human experience. Maybe David has a position on God that the rest of world should salute. he obviously is a judge, jury and executioner about something he knows not. One the things i write about. Maybe he just in the second phase of his mental development. Try the next chapter.
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Comment by Brian R. McRae on June 27, 2009 at 6:39pm - "What the mind can conceive the body can achieve"!
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Comment by M. Rita Metts on June 27, 2009 at 6:00pm - I have actually read this book. It's a great read.
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Comment by Fay on June 27, 2009 at 5:49pm
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I have no Great American Dream, coming from the other side of the world. Most Americans haven't a clue where New Zealand is. We here, in fact, spend more time worrying about how the USA and other "great" industrial nations are destroying planet Earth.
NZ has no nuclear power or battle ships.
I have no personal issues with Americans, I haven't met a huge number. Everyone to themselves. Peace. I am happy being green, and happier still to stay away from countries that spend billions on weapons of destruction, but can't look after their own poor. If I have any thoughts on the American Dream then it is more about wishing that the "Great" Americans would work towards a different outcome for our planet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
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Comment by Alisa Stevenson on June 27, 2009 at 5:47pm - i think several commenters hit it dead on the head! it is all about how you define greatness. my husband quit a $14/hour job to move 500 miles and start a new business after a mere 20 months the business is supporting itself and growing daily. i feel great, but my husband is miserable because the business cant support us too. we are living the same life, but because we define greatness differently we feel differently about our current 'greatness'
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Comment by Robert White - Active entrepreneurial, christian, into health and wellness on June 27, 2009 at 5:00pm -
I don't believe it's "easy" to be great in America - what's "easy" is to be enlightened by people like my friend and mentor Zig Ziglar to get outside oneself and be a go-giver - you are then propelled to greatness by the help you get back - Bob White
http://Inner-Wealth.blogspot.com
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Comment by Joe Huguenard on June 27, 2009 at 4:52pm
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Easy to be great in America? No way! It's only easy to CHOOSE to be great and it is a decision we can ALL make. Most people think it can't happen for them because they "Think" it can't.
It doesn't matter whether you can read and write or NOT, because each and every one of us CAN learn what's necessary to be Great... whatever "Great" may mean to each and every individual person.
Even those in the poor third world countries CAN choose to change the life they have, IF they're willing to do what it takes to achieve their goals. All it takes is a strong "Desire" and "Willingness" to learn and DO what it takes.
It may be "Easier" to become Great in America, because of all the Freedoms we have, than it is in most other countries, but it ONLY happens through Hard Work, Determination and the Philosophies of a Winner - no matter where you live.
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Comment by Rick Hendershot on June 27, 2009 at 4:40pm -
I think this is more or less a rhetorical question. We all know the standard answer because we've heard it a thousand times - whether we live in the US or not. People are supposedly free to make choices in America. As a result there will be more people likely to "succeed" in a dramatic fashion, or be "great" than in countries where this kind of freedom does not exist.
Of course there is a significant amount of truth to this. But it is only one side of the story. As has been pointed out by others, there is a dark side to this kind of freedom. For every winner there are many losers. For every healthy American who can run around the block while reading a book there are many others who cannot afford to break their leg because they have no health insurance. For every high paying job there are many dead end low paying ones.
The really interesting question is why any of us, Americans or not, are willing to buy into the belief that we can be "great" when we know how few people can actually realize their dreams of "greatness" (whatever they take that to mean).
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Comment by Shawnasie Shear on June 27, 2009 at 4:24pm - Very encouraging post! We live in a GREAT country where we can strive to be whatever we want and live the life we want. I, personally, am striving toward dreams that would not be possible in countries where women are considered inferior. Thanks for posting! Make it a GREAT day!
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Comment by Ron Boto on June 27, 2009 at 4:22pm - Just a comment: there have never been "peasants" in America. People in this country early on were called colonists or native Americans, but never peasants.
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