We always hear about the 99 percent and the one percent in terms of economics—the wealthiest one percent and the poor or middle-class 99 percent.
If you believe in capitalism, or if you believe our system is a meritocracy, you might think it’s easy to switch your economic class. Whether you believe it or not, most of us have to admit we dream of striking it rich and suddenly living the high life.
It rarely happens. A few in the one percent are born in poverty and build their fortunes from scratch, but they’re the exception. Most of the one percent are born that way.
Most of the 99 percent are born poor or middle-class and will likely stay that way for the rest of their lives. Even when poor people win the lottery, they almost always squander the money and end up poor again.
There’s another way to classify people into the 99 percent and the one percent that’s not economic. It’s creative.
Everybody falls neatly into one of the two categories. If 100 people come to you with a great creative idea, like an idea for a book, movie, or some other creative project, you can ask each one of them to write it up.
Ninety-nine percent of them won’t do the work. You’ll never hear from them again.
One percent will do the work. They’ll show up in a few weeks with a book or a screenplay.
Good news is, you can decide which group you want to be in. You can join the creative one percent right now, and you can stay there as long as you want.
Even better news: the creative one percent often end up being the economic one percent.
At 27717 words into my novel and still reading up on humor (11 books read and 1 more about to finish).
The funny thing is that I have no idea how funny it is but I'm having fun cranking out the first draft.
So who cares?
Rumor goes that it's in the revision where the magic of uplifting happens.
Thanks Scott, made me feel special like this was for me. So funny how reading something, then giving it meaning like, wow just for me. Meaning making machines we are. Writing today after last night debate, inspired by the debate that I have chance to be president. :)