what is greatness, and how would it show it's self in institutions?

Answer 1

Greatness comes from within. When you reap this thought, you sow the benefits. Being modest when need be but confident when opposition rises. Showing people respect and you will gain their respect. Being a man of your word but knowing what to promiss is what makes you great in peoples eyes.

Patience, time and discipline is key. When you show your colours, people will rally behind you.

Answer 2

You don't want to show Greatness!, Greatness, can become by been comprehensive, and knowledgeable, greatness my start when you can said "I have some wisdom", but never before of that, someone may say to you, "You are great"! may question is for what?, this to show you that most everyone, will say anything to appeared Intelligent, you have to make sure, you know what are you doing exactly and specifically for other human being, that although it will be a great thing to do You will not which to be recognize or get paid for been just the greatest?. Moreover, yes!, it could be intuition, that to my perception is a gift better fit, for woman's, in which case man will need to use what we call instincts. Although instincts a/o Intuition, aren't the most recommended censorial potentials to use in any way, to become, pursue, achieved, understand, and claim the big Mountain into greatness. <<>>

Answer 3

Greatness cannot survive in an institution. It is what creates good institutions but will always live outside of an institution. By deffinition greatness is to exceed the norm. To exit the limits of the normal and achieve something extroidinary.

That is one reason I hate socialism. It puts a big box around everybody. Boxes capture the human spirit and crush it. They limit what people could do and discourage them from trying. Socialism is a great example of a society wide institution and what happens when ideas above the ordinary meet the enforced normalcy that is a characteristic of all institutions.

When greatness meets an institution then a contest ensues. With luck and some help greatness can overcome and institution. MLK for example stepped out of the institution of segragation and with help was a key part in defeating the institution.

Einstein as a member of the institution was constantly beaten down, almost to the point he gave up. Then he stepped outside of the scientific world and published his ideas anyway. Withstood the initial ridicule and today we celibrate him as a great man and his ideas have become part of the jail future great scientists will have to battle against. The institution in this example was the scientific community which still to this day considers credentials more important than independent thought and is very reluctant to adopt a new idea. It requires people to jump through certain hoops in order to gain credibility. The hoops are designed to squeeze every bit of free thought out of an individual before they have the credentials to publish serious papers.

Ceaser, he stepped out of the Roman military institution, one which he climbed outside of normal methods. Then climbed out of the Roman political system to change Rome forever.

Teddy Rooseveldt bucked the political institutions, broke every rule in the political books and rewrote them to suite his ideals. He as a hawk with forign policy but a humanist when it came to internal policiy. He was an outdoorsman who really founded our National parks system and environmental movements. He did this while being very friendly to business interests. He did this without being bought or owned by anybody and dared defy the whole political system running as an independent cantidate at one point. Ole Teddy had his faults, one of them was he was larger than life. He lived life with such gusto that it makes most men's lives seem pale and weak by comparision.

Edison didn't have a job. He slept only short spells at a time. He didn't participate in the scientific community with research papers and long arguements about what is and isn't possible. He figured out how to do things and did it his way.

I cannot name a great person who did not step outside of the system. That didn't buck the very institutions they often served and protected. That didn't rewrite how something was done or open doors for how they could be done.

So again I say. Greatness is always at war with any institution that attempts to confine it. Greatness that blossems is greatness that finds a way out. Like a tree that grows from bare rock, cracking it to get to the soil it needs for substanence. Greatness must break through the prison of institutions to show itself. Many would be great people did not and do not get that lucky break to escape institutions. Instead that greatness dies a slow rot bound up deep in the dungeon of conventionality and normalcy. Walled in by disbelief and prejudice. Guarded by jealousy and fear. Whipped by conventionality and branded by peer pressure as heresy.

Answer 4

Greatness is being the King in an insane asylum.

Answer 5

I think greatness is the ability to have a dream, vision, plan, and to take them to completion