Your insights are truly different than mine, but that comes from us being different.
Small minds discuss people, Average minds discuss events, Great minds discus ideas.
In a free society, and even in a society that's not so free, what I am as a person, and what events occur in my life, are directly governed by the ideas that I have. Those same truths are transcribed to the family unit, our social structures, our various nations, and to the world at large. It therefore means that if I have small ideas, I will be a small person, and very little will occur in my life. Thus, great ideas will produce a great person with stellar life experiences. Then, I would apply that same question to my family life, my civic life, to our national goals, and to the world itself.