How many people that you meet end up not liking you very much? Or to put a more exact word for it, end up disliking you. I mean not everybody likes you right? So out of 100 people how many end up disliking you do you think?
Well let's take a very charitable approach and suppose that 1 out of a 100 people won't like you much (in my case the figure is somewhere in the 60s at the least). Or in other words 1% of all the people you meet don't like you.
That means, taking 1% of the total population of the world, there are approximately 64,086,068 people who, upon meeting you, would not like you. 68 Million people. That's a lot of people.
In 1890 that would have been more than the population of the United States (although now we are at 294,489,979, or 4.6 times the number of potential people who don't like you (or wouldn't like you if they met you, assuming, charitably, that only 1 person out of a 100 doesn't like you)).
The United States Army Military during World War II (when the military reached it's peak size) was 16,353,700 or approximately one quarter the number of people who might not like you if they met you.
Of course, the odds are these people who wouldn't like you will never meet you. But wait a moment, aren't we going through some kind of communications revolution? You are going to have the potential to encounter more and more and more people than ever before. Isn't that great? So all these people who might never have had the opportunity to dislike you will now have that opportunity.
Something to think about as we walk boldly into a communications revolution.
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