One of the biggest beliefs about wisdom is that those who are wise do not consider themselves wise. The first step we have to take is to wake up as many wise people as possible to the fact that they are wise. As wise people are selfless we can use their selflessness by consciously and deliberately channeling their wisdom to help others around them become wise. Bhagwan Rajneesh was once asked 'how come you are a god and I am not?' He replied 'you are a god too the only difference is you don't know it.' And this kind of stuff is in every scripture. I am translating this to mean that I have wisdom and I know it. You have wisdom too but you don't know it (I mean others don't know, not you specifically). So I have taken up this task to awaken you to your true self which in its fully developed state is wise. Especially this great country of America where her soul was created by her founders on the right footing. You need two feet to stand tall and for your true self - your mind to stand tall you need the solid foot of regular intelligence and the solid foot of emotional intelligence. The founders of America made sure that by creating the right constitution and the right environment we can all rise to our full potential standing tall on both equally important feet of our mind; intelligence and emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence which at its fully developed potential is wisdom; affects all aspects of life. It controls our life from the individual, to companies, to groups, to whole countries. There is such a thing as group emotional intelligence where every one takes for granted certain beliefs and attitudes and where upbringing norms are universally accepted and practiced. There are some common American notions that have an almost first class affect on the emotional intelligence of the child. However the American child's self image is brought up on the notion that he is the best. Thus feelings of being the best create a trophy self image. The child grows into adulthood feeling like a trophy and seeking trophies all his life. So he focuses more on fulfilling his dream of proving to himself that he is a trophy then even on spending his money wisely. In fact the silver lining in this 'trophy self' makes us Americans the best when it comes to making money. But for us making the money is secondary and making a trophy life is the bottom line. Thus we make money with our minds but we spend money with our so called hearts. We are the best in the world when it comes to making money and we are one of the not so good when it comes to spending money. This is not just us; it is a national trait that gets reflected even in companies and in government policies. In the current times when individuals to institutions and even the federal govt. are all struggling with not enough money to balance the books we must change our trophy self image - the main culprit why we spend our money dictated by our heart and not our mind. We must especially insure that the future generation is brought up on developing their true self and not create a trophy self for themselves. Please read my knols on wisdom and especially 'Wisdom of Champions' and 'Wisdom Bonding'. America is still the greatest country when it comes to making money but when it comes to spending money we go after spending it on the desires of our phony self image. We make money with our minds with real sweating/hard work but we spend this hard earned money on the agenda of our trophy self image. So the happiness even is somewhat hollow. We can do both; we can remain the greatest country in making money as well as we can become the greatest country in spending money too if only we can wake up and start creating our true self rather than a trophy self. As Bhagwan Rajnees said if we only knew our true and full potential and how to develop it we will remain the greatest people and the greatest nation in the world. And if we don't change then we may go bankrupt sooner than later. We Americans create money with our super mature +2 well developed minds and spend it by our +1 mature hearts (+1 mature brains).
