![]() Your grandparents couldn’t consume content and learn about entrepreneurship from a hundred different sources while grabbing groceries and listening to a podcast on their wireless earphones. You Have Limitless Alternatives – Don’t Complainģ0 years ago, your grandparents couldn’t build a business from the comfort of their own home, or on the way to work riding on the bus or train. We now have more opportunity than ever and for once, we actually have an alternative. But, there’s also a flipside to this proliferation of information and access too. Today, the world has gone global and there’s more info than ever being presented to us at all times. Even with newspapers, we were operating on information at a state or national scale and we had to actively subscribe or purchase a physical copy to stay in the loop. I’m not blind to the reality that horrendous things still happen but I challenge you to understand the fact that because of the enormous amplification and distribution of this information through the internet does it appear that we are being bombarded with bad news everyday … It used to be that you only heard about the news in your town and maybe the town over. Trust me, I am enormously empathetic to the strifes and struggles that are happening all over. But on a macro scale, things are just better than they’ve ever been. ![]() The internet and the opportunities it’s granted us are ludicrous and I hope this article can get at least one person to take a step back and recalibrate their perspective.Īnd obviously with an article title like “The Greatest Year To Be Alive” I understand that there are subtleties and nuances up for debate. Now, with the internet, and especially the advent of the smartphone, you can use the device in your pocket to find new friends, colleagues, communities, job opportunities, entertainment or even the tools you need to build your own business while laying naked in bed. Just 30 years ago, if you hated your job, your life, your friends, or your town, you had nowhere to go. Not only has life expectancy, poverty, illness and conflict dramatically improved from generations past, we now have a truly limitless playground called “the internet” to connect, create, learn, and work from at every second of every day. These facts, and many more clearly articulate the positivity and optimism I see that the world truly better than it was before. Global conflict has also dramatically declined. People are living longer and global health is improving. Since 1900, the global life expectancy has more than doubled. Additionally, in that time, 864 million people have joined a social network, gaining access to more information, entertainment, and community online. At the most macro, I point to things like the internet adding 1.7 billion users since January 2012! That’s 88% growth in terms of total internet accessibility. There’s more opportunity than ever because the internet changed everything. You Literally Have More Opportunity Than EverĮverything points to the fact that the world is getting better. Many of us are complaining and we don’t realize that this is the single greatest era to be alive in human history. Due to my circumstances and the reality that I immigrated to the US in 1978 and was somehow perfectly parented without the aircover to dwell or complain, I became rooted in a foundation of gratitude and a level of perspective and practicality that changed my life and behavior permanently. I for one, was born in the former Soviet Union, with no internet and no capitalism to save me. ![]() ![]() Listen, If there is anything I could wish on you, more than my work ethic, or my energy, or my charisma, it would be the mindset and perspective of how good life really is.
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