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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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 Mel Reed on June 27, 2009 at 12:22pm - It is not easy to be great in America. It is not easy to be great anywhere. What defines greatness; money, power, popularity, talent? Greatness is rightfully conferred upon those who have earned it by the magnitude of what there life stands for. Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of great people are completely invisible to the rest of society in every country in the world. Why? Because there is no tangible reward for greatness.
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Comment by Barabás Csaba on June 27, 2009 at 12:20pm
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Comment by Paulyih on June 27, 2009 at 12:19pm - America is great is so many ways -- Yes, open society, open network and all -- Just take a look of all the new social and business networks . However, be mindful of the dark side also -- this last fiascoes of the banks, Wall Street, hedge funds and Subprime and sunk and tanked the US and the war in Iraq also will not remediate the reputation of the US. Yes, let us value what is good in the US and be "mindful" of the dark side :)
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Comment by Candice A Donofrio on June 27, 2009 at 12:18pm
- If you want to be great you can be -- wherever you are. History has proven that not just Americans can be great. I agree with this article though in that we have 'quickened' so rapidly in the past century and accomplished/invented things beyond the dreams of most before us . . .
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Comment by Baba on June 27, 2009 at 12:11pm
- It's easy to be great in America because we have choices. We can chose to do something, or chose not to do it.
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Comment by Bipin Patel on June 27, 2009 at 12:08pm -
Yes you can grow and prosper and become great in America.
1. Free enterprise system,which is not in many countries.
2.Economical freedom.
3.Highschool education is free.
4.All the benefits of Democracy.
5.Everybody has equal rights,including women.
6.You have resources available,it's up to us how we look at it.
Bipin Patel
Http://rapidprosperityplan.com
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Comment by Donna on June 27, 2009 at 12:07pm -
I don't run around the block but a few months after turning fifty I stated Tae Kwon Do. I am no black belt recommended level four and my office is covered in a wall of books with books also sprinkled around most other rooms in my home.
I have done things my mother wouldn't have even dreamed of doing and I'm loving every minute of it.
This is a wonderful piece, however.. you can be and do anything no matter where you live. Each nation has "great" people who accomplished in spite of being jailed, beaten and killed.. often for being a heretic.
We have many opportunities here in the good ol USA.. and those of us who stay informed will help keep it free and full of promise.
Love yourself well... always,
Donna
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Comment by Dexter on June 27, 2009 at 11:57am - If you look around in the world you can find people in just about any Country that has made it big. Even in Countries you would think there is no opportunity in. Why is that? I believe it's the mind set of the person. Opportunity can be found everywhere. We just have to go after it.
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Comment by Rudy Hiebert on June 27, 2009 at 11:52am - Depends on the price you want to pay to "be great in America". If you see the people in the media and what they've experienced to be great, no thanks. If being "successful in America is easy" would be more accurate to describe what is being said, then that may be more what is true. Even then, being a success is relative to a lot of variables and contexts.
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