Controversial
Please understand that this is quite controversial. A lot of people are thinking that individual human beings are exactly that, individuals.
Straightforward
This might seem pretty straigthforward. It might even seem a lot like stating the obvious.
Meaningful
Still, there is a lot of meaning packed into what would otherwise be a glib statement that rolls easily off one’s tongue.
RACISM
Old school determinists talk about race. They’re basically saying that if you look a certain way, if your eyes are shaped a certain way, or you come from a certain part of the world, then you can be expected to behave in a certain range of ways.
According to this thinking, there is some sort of predictive value based in observable qualities that are locked essentially in your DNA. The problem with this is that it evades choice.
HUMAN BEINGS
Human beings do change. No two human beings are alike. To say that just because somebody looks a certain way or comes from a certain part of the world and shares many different similarities with a large group of people, that this person is a slave to some sort of destiny shared by those same people.
This is simply not true. People have a lot of willpower. People can change the direction of their lives. People can make better decisions.
Believe it or not, the world doesn’t care about the emotions that you’re feeling. It really doesn’t. All it sits up and pays attention to is what you choose to do,
Guess what? You are always in control of your actions. It may seem like there are larger forces that are beyond your control and it seems like you’re trapped in this weird play that you did not write.
It’s as if you’re just looking at this big screen and seeing your life unfold and you really had no input in the screenplay that is being acted out in front of you. It may seem like that, but let me ask you.
Can you make a choice? Can you make a decision? If you’re able to answer, “Yes,” then please understand that those choices and decisions, no matter how seemingly small, can create ripples.
That’s right. They can create all sorts of chain reactions that you may or may not be aware of. This changes the results of your life.
Again, the world sits up and pays attention to results. They couldn’t care less about emotions, feelings, and hunches. Know the difference. According to scientific research, space actually has a lot more to say about culture than other factors.
This really blew a lot of people’s minds. For the longest time, one of the biggest cultural inputs that social scientists have always been harping on over and over again in many different forms since Karl Marx is economics.
A lot of people are still convinced that you economic background, in particular your class, has a lot more to do with what you choose to do with your life as well as your trajectory in terms of income and wealth. This is a very dismal type of situation.
According to this school of thought, wealth is not really created. I know this is news to a lot of people. This is news to bloggers, freelancers, and to people who actually applied themselves to earn online.
A lot of academics believe this. They believe that wealth is not really created. Instead, it is simply transferred. People who own the system, people who are close to the decision makers, people who are movers and shakers have a larger role to play in diverting assets from one group of people to the next.
This really is crazy because that’s not how the world works. You can always make a new decision. You can always change the direction of your life.
Often times, it only takes one small choice to unleash a tidal wave or even a tsunami of changes that dramatically alter the life that you end up living. You probably already know this.
In fact, one of the biggest decisions you could ever make involves the person you choose to marry. Marry the wrong person and marry or get into a long term relationship with the wrong person and you will come out a completely different person.
I wish I could tell you that this is always a positive thing. Unfortunately, a lot of people come out of certain relationships in the worst shape. They end up playing the game of life to lose.
They end up expecting the worst things to happen. They end up feeling really small. A lot of this has to do with space because we can always choose the space that we find ourselves in.
That choice can trigger all sorts of choices that can put our lives to a whole other level or can doom us to a life of mediocrity, struggle, or frustration. Again, it really all boils down to an individual choice.
You always have that choice. You have to take ownership of this ability. You have to understand that you can always control things. You can always call the shots.
This doesn’t necessarily mean that you can control the outcome, but you can control part of the process and guess what? That is good enough. Take control now. Pay attention to your space. Understand how it impacts your culture.
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