Wednesday, March 31, 2010

HOPE 1- Hope may Determine the World Order

Why do different countries with people of similar intelligence, natural resources and economic resources grow differently?

Why do individuals with similar IQ grow differently?

The key difference is HOPE.

Countries like Japan have very high hope. Even when Japan was raised to ground by atom bomb, it bounced back to be one of the top four economies of the world.

On the contrary, the debacle for the USSR was much smaller. However, 30 years later, Rusia has not been a force to reckon with.

Japanese were hopeful and Russians had given up.

This applies to the organizations, the companies and the individuals.

Try checking it out in your neighbourhood.

India is doing well because it is a country of hopefuls. The US of A did well because it was a country of Very High Hopefuls. However, overdose of everything is bad. So is of HOPE. Being so hopeful, people in the US of A went overboard in borrowing and that cost them dearly. Now, based on the research of a major consutling firm, HOPE in the US of A is at its all time low. This has forced people to start saving in a country which only lived on debt and amortizing future earning.

I am not sure if fall of the USA is healthy for the world or not. However, Hegel says anything that has gone up will come down. So the USA is bound to come down some day. He also says that nothing is static. It is either moving up or going down.  If we cannot see the USA going up it must be coming down.

Now, if that is bound to happen, somebody's loss will be somebody's gain. So who gains? Possibly Japan, Germany, India and China?

One cannot challenge the German intelligence (read inventions), Japanese Innovation, Indian's ability to learn and be flexible and Chinese scale, which could humble USA.

Strangely, all the four economies never give up. They do not lose HOPE.