During the media promotion for Big Russ & Me, the late Tim Russert’s tribute to a father whom he very much venerated, Russert the son talked with bursting pride about how his sanitation worker father had immense common sense even though he hadn't attended college. Without pretending for a second that university life is where wisdom is attained, Russert’s assertion was a false note. He seemed to saying that Big Russ's wise ways were a consequence of a lack of education, and a lack of work success.
While blanket dismissal of the insights, morals and ethics offered by the average would be foolish, much more foolish would be dismissal of what the wildly accomplished have on their minds. How ridiculous to reject someone’s thinking just because they’re educated, or rich. Reduced to the absurd, you the reader might ask yourself whom you would have learned more from each morning about hard work, business and life: longtime and legendary General Electric CEO Jack Welch, or a factory worker in one of GE’s myriad plants? The question answers itself. What is wrong with achievement?
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