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Strategies & Market Trends : John Pitera's Market Laboratory

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To: Yorikke who wrote (14150)6/8/2013 10:00:40 PM
From: John Pitera   of 33421
 
Yorikke, I think that I made your point for you..... look at this quote that is part of what you are responding too.
Bill Clinton can be much more effective in raising hundreds of millions if not Billions of Dollars for his Global Philathropic Institute than he can by having his boots on the ground.... running logistics in Haiti after the Massive earthquake in Port Au Prince.

Look at how Bill CLinton went down to Haiti to direct relief efforts after the massive earthquake in 2011...... He had taken a particular interest in raising the standard of living in Haiti.... by many metrics the poorest country in all of North and South America....
.. He had a special interest and ownership stake in bringing them out of poverty prior to the earthquake.... the earthquake hits and he get down there to run logistics and to make calls for major relief aid from a number of countries...... He gets down there with the Chaos.... the lack of people being able to help one another and it is massively hot humid and oppressive with no electricity to cool down... After 3 days he had a major heart episode that came damned close to killing him and he had to come back to NY and get Heart surgery


The path that everyone is on is very different........ What motivates the MD's involved with "Doctors" without borders.....

I myself engage in some ministry and help some people on occasion when I can.... But as my friend Stuart McGowan has so aptly put it " You can not help get your neighbor's OxCart Out of the Ditch, if your own OXCart is in the Ditch"

I have an ability to write and communicate.... do this is probably a better utilization of my time and skill sets than making beds for the needy which I have no special aptitude for.

I believe I started out my missive commenting on the tremendous contributions that filmmakers Steve Spielberg,... and other directors, authors, musicians and other thinkers provide which contributes to the rich tapestry of our human experience and our civilization..

I can not tell other people their calling and what they should do to be happy and live a fulfilled life.. I would be extremely lucky and or blessed to be able to intuit or guided as to how I can do something with my time here in this life doing something that makes me feel like I am not wasting my life...

I certainly, can not tell others how to reach Nirvana, Zen or personal serenity....I am not Budda or a prophet.

does this put my clarify my thought process a bit.

John
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