Today I Learned the law of averages. Through my fundraising activities I’ve found that there is a predicatable ratio of how favorable things can occur. I found through going door to door that most people will deny you or not bother to open the door. This will be the overwhelming majority. It will almost make you question why even bother? That’s excaxtly how I felt. Taking that amount of rejection can be soul crushing it can be confidence killing. But it was easy for me to get over that hump after thinking about it as if I’m doing this so my son can get a college education and by the way I’m my son. But the ratio I’ve found is that 80% of people will either tell you no, refuse to open the door, or are just not home. Then the remaining 20% of people will actually give you money or sincerely ask you to come back tomorrow when they’d have cash on them. The interesting thing about this ratio is that the people who do give you money will disproportionately outweigh the number of people who don’t give you money. In a way the net positive experience noticeably outweigh the negative experience. When I think about it this concept is in a a lot of places particularly with making any form of content. With my podcast the vast majority won’t get shared or won’t cause any reaction. But then the few that do get shared and garner a bunch of plays bring in new people to listen to the more obscure episodes. The top pays for the bottom in a sense. Another thing that is interesting is that this ratio is kind of reliable. There’s off days of course but I’ve noticed that with a large amount of output there can be a reliable return on a few units of the output expended.