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The Geniuses Of Society Will Make You A Millionaire

Chapter Three

We, The Yesterday's Victims
Will Become Tomorrow's Victors

Why do we fail at our dreams in the 20th century? Let's not make this more difficult than it is: we fail because we are in a society in which we cannot win. The blame rests squarely on our 20th-century leaders. The solution, however, is just as simple: if America goes Neo-Tech, our 21st-century leaders will make this society one in which we cannot fail.

By the way, my definition of failure is: not becoming the person you always dreamed of...the person you were meant to be. That person is wealthy and doing exciting, important things for society. Everyone can be wealthy and dynamic.

How do we make this society one in which we cannot fail, meaning every ordinary person is wealthy? Let's keep it simple: simply sink the B.O.A.T. Indeed, a tiny percentage of our population -- our political and bureaucratic leaders -- create an indomitable burden on advancing technology (B.O.A.T.). When we sink that B.O.A.T. of freeloaders, technologies will boom along with our own wealth as prices tumble into free-falls, especially now on the eve of the information revolution.

But first, let us take a brief look back over your own past, growing up in this no-win society, to know what happened to you personally that killed all your chances at your dreams:

Born In a No-Win World

Where did everything go wrong? Think back to your earliest memories. Most people's earliest memories center around the time they started school. Little did you know that your potential in life was already set by the time you spent your first day in school. Your lifelong potential was already set too low -- damning you to fail at all your ambitious dreams throughout life.

A common myth says your potential in life comes from your education. Not true. Education provides you with the thinking tools and knowledge to fulfill whatever potential you do have.

Let's get to the bottom of exactly what is potential: For some time, scientists have known that the human mind of average intelligence has enormous capacity. We have all heard the stories that had we continued the learning curve experienced as toddlers, we would be speaking many languages fluently, doing Einsteinian physics, reciting the ins and outs of the philosophies and, in short, knowing most everything in the Britannica Encyclopedia.

If man's mind is capable of such great things, what stopped us? Our geometrical learning curve collapsed. In fact, it took its biggest drop right after our toddler years -- right before entering school.

What causes that geometrical learning curve to begin with? Actually, the simple answer is: deep-rooted motivation. Infants and toddlers are extremely motivated to learn to talk and become conceptual conscious beings. They feel powerful survival pressures to do so. Of course, with our superior minds, we were born to learn. And that is why toddlers are the happiest people alive. You see, only when you were a toddler were you the person you were meant to be.

Then something happened around six or seven years of age, after you mastered language and became a full-fledged conceptual conscious being: your learning curve collapsed. That meant your deep-rooted motivational drive collapsed. For, now to successfully be part of society no longer depended on a geometrical learning curve.

Imagine if that geometrical learning curve still existed in all adults. Well then, to simply fit into such a progressive society, the toddler's learning curve would just keep on soaring, deeply motivated, deeply happy.

The loss of the learning curve among the entire human race is not natural. Man was meant to forever rapidly learn. We are the persons we were meant to be for only the first few years of our lives -- the happiest years. Something alien killed our learning curves by killing our deep motivational drives.

That something unnatural from outside ourselves that killed our deep-rooted motivational drives is the B.O.A.T. causing a society in which we cannot win. Deep-rooted resignation replaced our deep-rooted motivation. Now, back to the question: "What really is potential?" The answer is: our deep-rooted motivational drive in life. With the undaunted motivational drive we were meant to have, our potential equals our mind's incredible capability. But in today's society, our potential is very small, motivation replaced by resignation, dooming us to fail at our most important dreams. If, however, you as a small child were only exposed to highly motivated parents (building values and making hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars as young adults), your motivational drive would not have collapsed. Upon the arrival of the Neo-Tech Era in which we all become millionaires, that motivational drive will return. We will all become super whiz kids at all ages.[ 6 ]

To begin answering the question, Why do we fail at our dreams? all goes back to before your earliest memories as you learned resignation from the world around you.

Schooled In a No-Win World

When you started school, you had lots of dreams: becoming rich, a hero, famous...in short, becoming someone very important who would make a difference. Life, however, grows increasingly frustrating because we do not have the potential to achieve our dreams. That is why teenagers often become frustrated and disillusioned.

Education is how we acquire thinking tools and knowledge. The better the education, the more we can fulfill our potential. Unfortunately, as everyone knows, public education has deteriorated to frighteningly ineffective levels. However, if you personally talk with teachers and principals, they are very dedicated to education and to teaching the children. Teachers are genuinely into their jobs, and competent at the job they were given to do. And there, precisely, is the problem: the job they were given to do.

Decades ago, education lost its way. Political leaders and school-board leaders lost their understanding of the very heart of education. At the heart of educating a child is: fill my mind with knowledge; teach me knowledge, and teach me how to think most effectively so I can retain and build more knowledge. In a sentence, that is the job of public education. And that is not the job given to teachers today.

Instead, political correctness has given our teachers another job: to help the children "learn" from each other. Of course, that sounds good, progressive, and multicultural. The teachers do very well at the job given them, bringing to their classrooms the discussion method as their method of "teaching". And dedicated teachers admirably go to great lengths to stimulate and guide their classroom discussions. But the job given to the teacher is the wrong job. The popular discussion method is not education. In short, it is a case of the blind leading the blind. Indeed, hard-working dedicated teachers cannot understand why children today score low on aptitude tests. The job given those teachers is the wrong job: The teachers' right job is not to make children socially confident or culturally literate. The teacher's right job is to teach -- yes, that old-fashioned lecture method.

The teacher has knowledge, lots of it. The child does not. The teacher must pour as much of that knowledge as he or she can into young minds. That, and nothing else, is the teacher's job. Motivating children must be defined and confined to the job at hand -- that is, to pouring knowledge into children's minds via the lecture method. Motivating children in the more disciplined environment of the lecture, indeed, requires greater discipline on the teacher. The teacher must work hard at nights making his or her lecture exciting and enlightening to students. Indeed, the effort to teach all goes back on the teacher's shoulders. And, if given that job, most teachers today would do a competent job educating our children.

A vital part of the teacher's job of pouring knowledge into children's minds, yet entirely lost today, is: equipping our children with the most powerful thinking method. That thinking method is conceptual thinking. Only through bringing together the scattered fragments of facts and figures into integrated concepts are we able to retain and build knowledge like a puzzle. While lecturing knowledge, teachers must pull together the many pieces of knowledge into integrated concepts to enable themselves to pour much more knowledge -- retainable knowledge -- into children's minds.

For example, while studying social studies, children memorize many specific facts about different countries, cultures, economies. But the child will retain little if those many specific facts are not pulled together into common denominators -- into a few powerful, timeless concepts. For example, the endless variations of prosperity and progress among cultures and economies could all be integrated by the common denominator of freedom. That's right, the prosperity and progress of each culture and economy directly relates to that country's degree of freedom from the B.O.A.T. of freeloaders. Now the child quickly begins linking together unforgettable conceptual understandings instead of memorizing forgettable places, faces, and other forgettable facts.

By giving the child the added power to jump past limited memorization into unlimited conceptualization, the teacher can pour far more knowledge into his students' minds. Moreover, the students now have the tools to build knowledge. Remember, knowledge is power. That growing power and control inside a child stirs up real and lasting motivation to learn.

Not faulting the teachers but faulting the leaders of this no-win society, children graduate without the knowledge or thinking tools to fulfill the limited potential they do have. Again, sinking the B.O.A.T. will bring teachers back to their proper job: to teach. Then, children will reach their potential.

Role Models In a No-Win World

Teenage role models often control which direction self-conscious teenagers turn. Role models today, namely pop, rock, and rap stars, reflect the no-win society in which we are trapped.

The message those role models continue to deliver in many subtle ways is: you are worthless. That message -- you are worthless -- is the common denominator under the many different surface messages. For instance, the self is devalued through reducing sex to the level of scratching an itch or through making self-destruction such as drinking and doing drugs the cool thing to do or through encouraging love for others because of skin color instead of meaningful value exchange. Self-worth, self-esteem is flattened by role models. And as one's self-worth goes away, so does the irreplaceable emotional self. Indeed, role models desensitize today's teenagers. Teenagers less and less feel meaningful love for family, pets, girlfriends or boyfriends. Those all-important emotional peaks and valleys are getting leveled.

But that can be expected. Let us not focus too much blame on the role models. In many cases, they too are just kids expressing their own frustrations. Instead, let us focus the blame on those who cause this no-win society. You see, once we sink the B.O.A.T. and have a no-lose society, then everyone's sense of life will change. Positivity will replace negativity. Love and sensitivity will flow. And role models will become assets.

Let's answer a question here: "I'm already middle-aged, and I will not achieve my dreams; my potential was destroyed early on, and my education was not good...is there any hope for me now?" The answer is YES. When the B.O.A.T. sinks, society will rise. You will rise along with society. You will experience the wealth you always dreamed of as well as the deep excitement and happiness of bringing major values to the world, all of which is beyond your potential right now.

Working In a No-Win World

You may still dream of wealth and greatness in this no-win society. But three forces hold you down from ever soaring: 1) your potential, that deep-rooted motivational drive resigned early on, 2) your mode of thinking was scrambled during education, and 3) society's opportunities have vanished because of the B.O.A.T. of freeloaders.

First, your potential, your deep-rooted motivational drive, is gone. Each day proves that. For, if you had the deep-rooted motivational drive that you did as a very young child, you would spend enormous energy learning and absorbing knowledge for your success every day. Driven by seven-digit financial rewards, your evenings and weekends would be full of reading, studying, thinking and rethinking your fast-lane of success. Your thirst for knowledge would be unquenchable. Very few adults today ever had the opportunity to exist in this mode.

Second, your mode of thinking was scrambled during your education. By not learning to do potent conceptual or integrated thinking in school, you stayed in the impotent specialized-thinking mode. Specialized thinking works on memory and blocks you from integrating and building knowledge, which is crucial to creating money-making opportunities. Specialized thinking puts us into a following mode, merely following what we are told to do, following the set responsibilities given to us at work...trapping us in routine ruts. Integrated thinking puts us into a self-leadership mode, using our own minds to build beyond what currently exists...propelling us into money-making breakthroughs.

Third, society's opportunities have vanished because the B.O.A.T. makes success too difficult. The legal battles, regulations, and legislation make opportunities at success limited, costly, and risky. Without such a burden, lucrative opportunities would be everywhere, for everyone.

The stagnation we encounter as adults certainly kills our dreams. Moreover, that stagnation also kills our marriages and the thrill of love we felt during the first few weeks or months of falling in love. And, sadly, our children absorb from us our hopeless resignation, just as we did from our parents. In short, all this is why we fail.

What is the way out of this lifelong trap? Your way out comes at two levels. By far the easiest way out is to sink the B.O.A.T. That can happen soon after the year 2000 either through the political process or through cyberspace...or through a combination of both. In the meantime, you can make some strides forward on your own by learning integrated thinking now as an adult. Part Two gives you the personal techniques to integrated thinking.

Victims In a No-Win World

If you are near retirement age or are already into your golden years, you likely find yourself concerned about politics. Your focus in life tends to shift to politics because you want to secure a good future America for yourself, your children and grandchildren.

The more you study politics and our leaders' effects on the country, you gradually begin to realize that all the problems have little to do with the nature of Democrats or the nature of Republicans. The problems have to do with the nature of politicians. In short, the nature of career politicians causes a great burden on advancing technology:

Burden On Advancing Technology


Three Major Burdens

40 Points Taxes:
Taxes on business hurt advancing technology, indeed. The cash needed to pay taxes cuts off endless research and development investments, which are the embryo not only of future creation of jobs, but of all advancing technology. Yet, perhaps the biggest burden is actually the income tax on the people. You see, taxing the people ultimately all comes back on the business. For, the people need enough money for a reasonable standard of living. So, the more people pay in taxes, the more business ultimately pays its workers. In a sense, business pays our income tax, a hidden but perhaps the second most major burden on advancing technology.

40 Points Legislation & Regulations:
Existing laws and regulations block industry from investing or putting effort into many vital directions. Too cost prohibitive and risky. Also, tender youth do not even attempt to move into new ventures, for fear of new regulations or laws or interpretations of existing ones. Creativity and progress is nearly extinguished with this, the bulk of burden on advancing technology.

20 Points Litigation:
All the unnecessary laws and regulations have bloated the legal industry with over 800,000 lawyers. The legal roadblocks and endless litigation makes American business laughingly uncompetitive on the global market and is a major burden on advancing technology.

100 Points Total


In late 20th century, let us see what happens when the Burden On Advancing Technology and its B.O.A.T.-of-Freeloaders rating gets reduced:


Computer Industry During 1980s & 1990s: Industry Norm:
Taxes 40 points (taxes did not change) 40 points
Regulations & Legislation 20 points (still applied to all supporting industries)

 40 points
Litigation 10 points (still applied to all supporting industries)

 20 points

 70 Points Total 100 Points Total


The personal computer industry was so new, the legislators, regulators, and lawyers did not know how to burden it yet. Thus, the B.O.A.T.-of-Freeloaders rating dropped from 100 points (the norm for all industries) to 70 points. By cutting the B.O.A.T. by just 30 points, or by less than one-third, buying power went up 1000 times or 100,000%.

The reason for the dramatic explosion in prosperity and consumer buying power when chopping the B.O.A.T is simple:

A Business Grosses $3 million ➔

Lucky To Make $100,000 Profits:

That means, for every $100 risked, lucky to make $3 or so. So fragile. The high risks of regulations, legislation, litigation can easily bankrupt the company. Just a slight shift in odds kills all -- all the jobs, jobs, jobs & values, values, values. Moreover, many, many businesses never even get started. And, no businesses put out the risks needed to grow to the next level. Too fragile. Too risky. The slightest additional burden can shift the fragile existence ever so slightly -- but enough to wipe out the fragile 3% margin. On the other hand, when even the slightest of burden is lifted, can alter the 3% margin to a 5% or 6% margin, which enables the company geometrically more flexibility and security to pursue growth to the next level.


Chapter 3 Continues

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Footnotes for Chapter 3

[ 6 ] Deep-rooted motivational drives now exist among people in the computer industry where the B.O.A.T. has not killed the free dynamics in which everyone feels survival pressures to learn rabidly. Moreover, the freedom of cyberspace will eventually bring back the learning curves to the people in all industries. [ Back to Text ]

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