Hi friends.. Could you tell me the difference between ordinary man and great man.?

Answer 1

Swami Vivekananda says "throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that faith in themselves. Born with the consciousness that they were to be great, they became great". So the ordinary men and women are with low self respect and faith in themselves. They don't have dream and they always satisfied with small small pleasures and opportunities. But great men make opportunities out of shear courage and power of sacrifice and an attitude of dare to dream. They have vision about life and the nation and the world. Ordinary people don't have anything like this even with themselves or their family. Forget about the nation and world !

Answer 2

Good question.

You can say something is good only when there is something which is bad.

For example consider hot and cold. They are different ? No Cold is an absence of Hot.
If you consider light and dark, dark is none other than absence of light :)

Now coming to your question ordinary man and extra-ordinary man.

Consider a man, who studies for 20+ years, get job, get married then have childer -- and one fine day .. Die

This cycle may change depending on personality. But this change will not make any difference.
Say if person doesn't marry or divorced, he is not great person.
If he didn't educate his children he is not great person.

Its all about humanity .. Moral .. honesty.

Doring above life cycle, assume his wife got a cancer or somekind of fix, but still he tries to hold her till end of life.
Say person dedicates his ilfe to help others.. honestly like to get freedom, help poor to come up.
Person who wont do anything but still inspire others to come up in life and solve the problems.
A person who sees happyness in others face..
A man who always try to find solutions rather than worrying about them.

to be a great person.... you shoud be a human ...

Thats all i can say
PC

Answer 3

Ordinary man gives priority to his self interest and his actions are self centred whereas a great man will take action in larger interest like Mahatma Gandhi who had interest of the country at heart and gave up his personal comfort, education and utilised his life in the service of the Country.

Answer 4

A great man is an ordinary man with hard-gained success.

Answer 5

An Ordinary person will always like to show himself as great while a Great person will always consider himself to be ordinary.

Answer 6

Great man theory
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The Great man theory is a theory held by some that aims to explain history by the impact of "Great men", or heroes: highly influential individuals, either from personal charisma, genius intellects, or great political impact.

For example, a scholarly follower of the Great Man theory would be likely to study the Second World War by focusing on the big personalities of the conflict — Sir Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Stalin, Hirohito, etc. — and view all of the historical events as being tied directly to their own individual decisions and orders.
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* 1 Proponents of the theory
* 2 Criticisms of the theory
* 3 References
* 4 Notes
* 5 See also
* 6 External links

[edit] Proponents of the theory

It is often linked to 19th century philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle, who commented that "The history of the world is but the biography of great men." This theory is usually contrasted with a theory that talks about events occurring in the fullness of time, or when an overwhelming wave of smaller events cause certain developments to occur. The Great Man approach to history was most popular with professional historians in the 19th century; a popular work of this school is the Encyclopedia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1911) which contains lengthy and detailed biographies about the great men of history, but very few general or social histories. For example, to read about the "Migrations Period", one would consult the biography of Attila the Hun.

[edit] Criticisms of the theory

The editors of the influential 18th century French encyclopedia Encyclopedie were ideologically opposed to biographies because they believed too much ink had already been spilled on hagiographies of church fathers and deeds of kings, and not enough about the average person or life in general. To this end Encyclopedie had almost no biography articles. However this policy was contentious among the encyclopedists and so some biographies were "hidden" inside articles, for example the article on Wolstrope, England is almost entirely about the life of Newton.[1]

An opponent of the great man theory in its own time was Leo Tolstoy, who devoted the entire non-fictional beginning of the third volume of War and Peace to critiquing it, using the Napoleonic wars as an example.

Today the great man theory is out of favor as a singular explanation for why things happen. Historians look at other factors such as economic, societal, environmental, and technological which are just as or more significant to historical change. Many historians believe that a history which only follows around single persons, especially when their significance is determined primarily by political status, is a shallow view of the past, and that sometimes such a view excludes entire groups of people from being parts of the study of history.

This critique has spread to other fields such as literary criticism, in which Stephen Greenblatt's New Historicism argues that societies play roles in creating works of art, not just authors.

Master Harold...and the Boys and Crime and Punishment offer critiques of the great man theory.

Answer 7

An ordinary man will ask this question, like you have done.
A great man will answer it, like I have done!!
;)

Answer 8

you are ordinary man and i am great

Answer 9

gr8 man can b ordinary but ordinary man cant b gr8.........................................just like i am gr8 n u r ordinary