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 Bill Johnson on June 27, 2009 at 11:46am - My belief is that for those who are willing to go for it, America offers almost unlimited opportunities. I don't believe in excuses for those who have little or don't have skills. If you want it bad enough, America offers the way to get it. If you rely on excuses on why you can't get it, you don't want it bad enough. Whether you believe you can or you can't, you are right. H.F.
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Comment by Mirdza Hayden on June 27, 2009 at 11:46am - I totally agree with your position. I was born and raised in Colombia, South America, where opportunities for the average person were just not available. I love living in the U.S where my dream of staying home with my kids has become a reality. It's also absolutely amazing that I can at the same time build a business that revolves around fitness and health and I can help people across the U.S and around the world right from home. America is truly the land of opportunities and it's up to us to take advantage of this.
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Comment by Jeremiah Whitman on June 27, 2009 at 11:44am - While I agree that reading is not exactly a well-taught skill these days (and that's rather unfortunate), making a lot of money does not necessarily make you great. The legacy you leave behind when you pass from this life should not have a dollar amount attached to it. It's the 100% conviction that you did what you felt was right (be it career or personal) that will be remembered.
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Comment by nemo on June 27, 2009 at 11:44am
- cuz america is the greatest place on earth
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Comment by JIMMY WILSON JR on June 27, 2009 at 9:39am - Simply it's not.
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Comment by Laila on June 27, 2009 at 6:22am -
Great comments here! Especially from Rosina and Laura.
Personally, I only read 2 or three books a week now that I have 4 kids, one on the way, and live on our organic farm, but I used to devour them daily. I don't watch TV (never have) and rarely go to the cinema.
Is it easy to be great in America? Only if your desire to be great outweighs your desire to think about how great it would be (to be great).
Laila
www.greenMOMteam.com
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Comment by Mohamad Sanip Bin Ali on June 27, 2009 at 1:55am - I can only wish and hope that America will continue to be a great place. With the advance of America economy , we in Asia and other parts of the world will definitely benefits.
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Comment by Dr. John Loblack on June 27, 2009 at 12:31am - Is it really easy to be great in America? I am not sure if that statement is actually true. If it is, why then so few of us become great? Then again, each one must define greatness on his/her own terms.
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Comment by Rosina Peixoto on June 26, 2009 at 10:57pm -
"The man who doesn´t read good books has no advantage over the man who can´t read them."
Mark Twain.
http://www.logosdictionary.org/pls/dictionary/new_dictionary.gdic.st?phrase_code=5817706
Regards,
Rosina
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Comment by Laura Cummings on June 26, 2009 at 8:38pm - I would not say it is easy for everyone to be great in America. A lot of folks do not have the ability to read because they do not have the ability to attend school. Even public schools are not always accessable to everyone. When you think of the back country areas of Alaska and even some points in the united States, how close are the schools? A college education is definitely not available for the vast majority of people. They have become cost prohibitive. How many students graduate from college with a nice degree and still cannot obtain employment at what they studied so hard to get. Yes, we are not limited like our grandparents and even our parents, but there are still a lot of limitations on us.
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