Heroes… Small Minds Worship People. Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, and great minds talk about ideas. Holding people sacred and blindly following them is a sure sign that you are a little mind. We are conditioned by education, the news media, and the entertainment industry to look up to people. If you know more about the average celebrities life than you know what is going on in the world you are the smallest of minds. This does not only apply to living people many worships past heroes, fictional heroes, or religious figures. This does not mean that if you are at this level you can not change it. Simply changing your attitude towards the celebrities paraded in front of you and realize they are mere people and no more special than you are. Then start learning about events going on in the world. Don’t just listen to the mainstream news outlets or alternative media outlet, look into the events from as many different angles as you can and try to learn all of them and understand them from the perspective of as many different interested parties as possible. If you do this you will be an average mind. Now when you take the facts you have learned about the events and start to analyze them for large themes and understanding the motivations behind the actors involved this is the first step to becoming a great mind. You are trying to find the ideas behind what is happening by using logic and intuition as well as an understanding of how people tend to think and react from their perspective (not coloring their action based on the prism you interpret the world). When you start to think in other peoples perspective and understand why they are doing what they are doing and how this fits into the larger perspective of the world you are becoming a great mind, but still not there yet. You need to learn to use logic and intuition to sift through all the data and make conclusions that have a deeper understanding about the events as they ...