“The world is changing faster than ever before, and we are flooded by impossible amounts of data, of ideas, of promises and threats. Humans relinquish authority to the free market, to crowd wisdom and external algorithms partly because they cannot deal with the deluge of data. In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. People don’t know what to pay attention to, and they often spend their time investigating and debating side issues. In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore.”
Hello, my name is Marcus Turner. I am the Founder and CEO of Limitless Capital Management Inc., a boutique Investment Advisory Firm, where we specialize in helping families that have built legacies, secure, and grow their wealth. We also assist those in the process of creating a legacy, to find creative investment solutions to avoid pitfalls and obstacles on their journey toward their dreams.
Through my daily efforts, I am often confronted with small obstacles that metastasize into more complex problems. These moments remind me of a more significant question. Where are the leaders, the thinkers, the problem solvers? Those with the perseverance, passion, and vision to provide the solutions needed. Currently, our Universities are not producing them. Instead, they are giving us some soul-less android that mimics everything and everyone that came before it. They have facts but no truths, smarts but no wisdom, and charisma with no character. We have educated their minds, but not their hearts and the notion of emotional intelligence is laughable. Therefore, we have lost our sense of solidarity and community. Although beliefs and platforms change, we continue to identify each other by political parties. Therefore, blurring the lines between right and wrong, just and unjust.
In this information age, we have lost ourselves, and we have yet to figure out the vastness of this social technology we have released into the universe. All things must be managed to thrive; with this technology, we have failed to do so. We have seen governments toppled, political upheaval, a loss of faith in the political system, murder, harassment, suicides, families broken up, and so much more. We must balance this runaway train with a return to character and ethics and, most of all, a healthy respect for one another. I am not saying that social technology or just technology alone doesn’t have any positive benefits; of course, it does. However, I believe the question is whether it is making us better, or is it hollowing us out, causing us to be soulless and less empathetic. For this country and the world to work, we must have solidarity aligned with freedom of thought and expression, that is what made this country great.
Back in the early ’90s, I read a book that I saw as a valuable warning to us. It was called “The Closing of the American Mind,” written by Alan Bloom. In this book, Bloom discusses the pitfalls of not valuing the education of the heart. Many believe we should fill our minds with numbers and facts. However, we should return to understanding the humanities and focus on those soft skills, by not telling people what to think but by teaching them how to think and think independently. He saw that currently, the school system was changing, and the education process was now beginning to assist students in becoming less and less independent because the freedom of thought or thinking itself was seen as foolishness and no longer necessary. We were being herded like sheep and led down a path of no return. Bloom knew that this could damage us for a generation to come.
This blog, Limitless Acumen, will encourage freedom of thought. It will discuss heavier topics, not those typical, how-to blogs that teach you how to obtain a mortgage, or how to improve your credit score. However, it will take a deeper dive into why and how we can as individuals combat this trend by re-engaging our minds and hearts to a broader and deeper thought process; to start an intelligent dialogue about solutions rather than a reiteration of the problems. The blog will focus on biblical principles that build a limitless life. These principles have endured the test of time. They will allow one to break through the boundaries in their life, whether they be mental, physical, financial, social, career, or business-oriented. So please join me (by subscribing below) with this endeavor and offer feedback, your thoughts, opinions, and criticism. All will be much appreciated. Subscribe today!
