76% or 24%???

Ok so a study was done on a majority of the people in the world. No subgroup was excluded. The population of people surveyed included men, women, children, teens, elderly, you name it if they had a pulse they were surveyed. All races and ethnic groups, as well as, multicultural people were surveyed.

These people were surveyed on the following pieces of information:

Common sense

Problem solving

Ability to distinguish right from wrong

Spatial awareness

Manners

Social skills

Motor skills 

IQ

Following verbal directions

Following written directions

Easy battery of skills right. Well the results were shocking:

76% of the people failed the tests

24% of the people passed these tests.

What that tells me is that 24% of the people in this world "GET IT" and 76% of the people in this world just "DON'T GET IT" 

So what was the reason for these results. Who knows it is probably a combination of different variables, but one things for certain a decline in the education system, a decline in economy, a decline in humanity itself, a decline in healthy people, and much more are totally apparent.  The topics listed here are debatable for other posts, but these are enough to show my point that we have problems.

The takeaway here is be proactive not reactive. Teach your children at an early age how to be a good person through manners and positive social interactions, be a goal setter by setting small intrinsic goals that can keep you on track, and learn to accept failure and move forward from it by being a problem solver. Stay away from reactive approaches, as much as possible by not waiting for problems to occur to decide a line of action. I understand that problems may arise and that being reactive happens sometimes, I understand that, but 90% of problems according to the publishers of the study say that these problems arise because you to take reactive approaches which were caused by a lack of initiation and follow through in previous situations. For example you go to the hospital because you are having chest pains, the doctor says you are having a heart attack, you then think to yourself man I can't believe this happened out of nowhere, I felt fine yesterday and then today I am hospitalized. You then may think to yourself now I need to change hence a reactive approach. The reason I say this is reactive is because the doctor now comes in and says you need to change your diet, start exercising, and ease back on the booze, well this,  if you had done it in the beginning would have been the proactive approach. It is easy for us to fall into this trap because the reactive approach has been imbedded into our psyche forever. We learn from mistakes when we started walking we fell many times, bumped into many walls, and received a few boo boo's, but over the course of making mistakes we learned to slowly react in better ways. 

Take some time to sit back and analyze and THINK about where you want to be and where you want to go. Finally ask yourself are you part of the 76% or part of the 24%. If you don't know or have to ask then your a 76%. Which is fine there's always room to be a part of the 24, and if you are already part of the 24 club... Just know any moment you could be in the 76%.

On to the next one....

-Baugh