here - The Corporate Ninja

Chapter Seventeen
The Corporate Ninja - Revealed!
Ron Lee
Research has shown that our greatest perceived
voids determine our greatest values in life.
Whatever we think is missing in our lives
becomes a priority. In the 1960’s, a survey of
America’s self-made millionaires showed that
92% came from impoverished families that
lived in towns of fewer than 10,000 people.
What were their voids? Money and influence.
Their priorities? Money and Influence.
What do voids and values have to do with my
being a professional speaker? When I started
school in the late 1950’s in Australia, the
country was in the midst of The White Australia
Policy. This policy granted immigration
officers a wide degree of discretion to prevent
individuals from entering Australia. The Prime
Minister, Edmund Barton, said, “The doctrine
of the equality of man was never intended to
apply to the equality of the Englishman and the
Chinaman.” Thus Australian cultural attitudes
were established, and although the Act was
officially abandoned in 1973, prejudice still
exists amongst many members of society.
Being of Chinese ancestry, I was victimized,
abused, and beaten up. I lost count of the
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