80/20 Rule Revisited

Some months ago I wrote a short piece about the 80/20 rule, otherwise known as Pareto’s Principle.  I was watching the video below and something occurred to me that seemed to fit nicely with the 80/20 rule.  This video is over an hour long, and while I don’t agree with everything that is said in the video, Gerald Celente does make a really good point at the end regarding the 20%.

Gerald Celente

Mr. Celente’s point is this; to make change in anything socially, you only need about 20 people out of every 100 to choose a new path; the other 80 will follow, because most people (way more than 80 percent in MY opinion) are sheeple.  That is, they are basically FOLLOWERS of others, not leaders.

This is a GREAT point, though I believe far fewer than 20% are ever required to make significant changes; changes that are either really positive for a society (e.g. the Renaissance) or really negative (the Nazi party).

20% Or Less Can Cause Change

Going along with this theory, I’ve noticed in the lifetime (which is quite LONG now) that it’s usually just a SMALL handful of people (often way less than 20%) who make all the really BAD things happen in the world.  They are typically the people that the sheeple follow; i.e. Religious leaders, politicians, union leaders, minority groups etc.)

What’s The Answer

There are two sides to this, simply because a very small minority can make such a big difference. As an individual, you have two choices;

1. Think for yourself

2. Let other people do the thinking for you

If you choose option #2, then you have nobody but yourself to blame for any problems that come into your life.  Sadly, if you choose option #1, the same thing applies! (Ironic isn’t it).

The GOOD part about choosing option #2 is that you can whine a lot about how bad things are and that’s it’s NOT YOUR FAULT.  Which, by the way is SARCASM.

The GOOD part about choosing option #1 is that your life will be much, MUCH better.  Why?  Because you and ONLY you can decide what is best for YOUR life.  Nobody else can, no matter what they rhetoric is.

Think for yourself, be it in business, love or anything else. If you don’t, you are giving up your one precious life to other to control.

Luke.

P.S. Purely by coincidence, 20% of the workforce in the U.K. AND the U.S. have government jobs!