I don’t think it is our responsibility to save everyone, I think it is our responsibility to give everyone the opportunity to save themselves.

When it comes to third world countries I don’t think it is the job of the developed world to give them all the luxuries in life. I think we should give them an opportunity to participate productively in the global economy.

Socialists may hate it, but even if you get on the lowest rung of the economic ladder you can at least start climbing out of the mud.

For a solution to be long term it has to be built by the people in the third world who are going to use it. People respond better to things they own.

I don’t know what people in the third world need to help themselves! I have my assumptions, but if I barely get my own culture how can I understand a culture a million miles away?

What can I do to help: enable! My contribution is to enable people to help themselves and fix their own problems.

There are many problems that I don’t know how to enable people to solve. The problem of not having money is one that I can help some people with through entrepreneurship.

If you can’t find a job that allows you to live a reasonable life then take control the situation and create your own opportunities.

Entrepreneurship allows people to fix the problems in their life in their own way.

This does not work for everyone, but it is what I feel is the best I can give.

I may not be change the world, but I can do my best to make it a little bit better for the next generation.

So much of life resides in you to make your choice.

I am fortunate that I have been successful at trading and have tons of opportunity in life. Really if I wanted to I could just start coasting by and still do fairly well for myself in life, but it is up to me to choose more.

Luckily for those of us living in most of Europe and North America we all have the ability to choose some of the direction in our life. For most people it is the basics of life that they feel stop them from making better choices for themselves. How can you go to school, start a company, or focus on our personal happiness if you can’t put food on the table?

Students seem to make it on 15k a year or less, why can’t those of us in the working world do the same? I think it is because we are not willing to make the short term sacrifice that could lead to long term gain. Here we are mostly trapped in a life that is barely good enough for us to not change, so that we don’t take a chance at actually experiencing greatness.

At this point in my life I am coming to the realization that it is up to me to make the choice for things to be great. If I don’t do anything things will be good, but I have to actively make the choice for things to be great. If I want greatness then I have to demand greatness of myself and those around me. I can’t settle, and I won’t settle.

One of my friends was inadvertently nice enough to remind me about how good it feels to demand greatness when we went for dinner the other day. Jim mentioned at dinner that one of the things he likes about talking to me was that when people complain I always ask what they are going to do about it. It might not be forcefully telling people to demand greatness, but it is my way of helping people ask more of themselves so that they will help me ask more of me.

At the end of the day no one can make the choices but me.