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I believe to be alive today is truly a wonderful thing. I believe that we are looking at the single greatest time of opportunity we will face in our lifetimes and one that perhaps many generations never had the chance to see. I believe those that step up today and decide to lead the way are not only going to be able to see real change but are going to be remembered for centuries to come for what they did.

When things start to break loose from their long seated positions and the world starts to change the upheaval never lasts long but when it does and you are ready for it, your number has been called and its time to change the world.

Read this excerpt from a article written by Malcom Gladwell.

Recently Forbes Magazine compiled a list of the 75 richest people in history. It includes queens and kings and pharaohs from centuries past, as well as contemporary billionaires such as Warren Buffet and Carlos Slim. However, an astonishing 14 on the list are Americans born within nine years of each other in the mid-19th century. In other words, almost 20% of the names come from a single generation - born between 1831 and 1840 in a single country. The list includes industrialists and financiers who are still household names today: John Rockefeller, born in 1839 (the richest of the lot); Andrew Carnegie, 1835; Jay Gould, 1836; and JP Morgan, 1837.

What’s going on here is obvious, if you think about it. In the 1860s and 1870s, the American economy went through perhaps the greatest transformation in its history. This was when the railways were built, and when Wall Street emerged. It was when industrial manufacturing started in earnest. It was when all the rules by which the traditional economy functioned were broken and remade. What that list says is that it was absolutely critical, if you were going to take advantage of those opportunities, to be in your 20s when that transformation was happening.

If you were born in the late 1840s, you missed it - you were too young to take advantage of that moment. If you were born in the 1820s, you were too old - your mindset was shaped by the old, pre-civil war ways. But there is a particular, narrow nine-year window that was just perfect. All of the 14 men and women on that list had vision and talent.

You can read the full text here.

But first answer this question for yourself. Are you where you are supposed to be right now? Could you be making the world a better place somewhere else?

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