Health, wealth and happiness!
Okay, don't we all?
So how to get it?
Having worked as a successful manager and consultant and trainer for many years I have developed some rules of thumb about achieving goals.
We can agree, I think, that wanting health, wealth and happiness is a goal. I have searched the web and what comes up is usually get quick schemes. I've given some of them a go and they are hard work and eventually I realised that for me they would become just another job, so that's not the way.
Looked at the Secret and it seemed to be just wishful thinking, so that didn't work.
Years ago I read a book called the Birth of Plenty by William Bernstien and it suggested that the reason the western world has achieved such a different level of wealth to previous societies can be found in the interaction of four base factors.
- Rapid Transport
- Scientific Method
- Property Rights
- Open Source funding
I have summaries the idea in this diagram.
Okay, think about it for a while (get the book & have a read) it seems to make a lot of sense to me.
Now an interesting thing about the scientific method is that it leads to a concept recently highlighted to me in a management consulting text called The Choice by Eliyahu Goldratt. This concept you may have heard expressed as a "catch-22" or even read the book that presented the concept in a war novel.
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