“I’ve never used X in my life,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I automatically assume that whatever it is, they haven’t learned it very well. Just about everything I’ve learned has come in useful, and the better I learned it, the more useful it is.<\/p>\n
Take statistics, for example. There is nowhere in my life that knowledge of statistics isn’t helpful. Darling Daughter Number 3 competes in mixed martial arts and I’m the worrying type.<\/p>\n Whenever her next fight is announced, the very first thing I do is check the fight odds. For the one coming up in Brazil, she is a 15-1 favorite<\/a>. Knowing that makes my stress level go down a little. I’ll still drop by her gym a time or two during camp just to reassure myself that all is going well. As I said, I’m a worrier.<\/p>\n Back our Kickstarter game, Forgotten Trail!\u00a0 Read more about what I’m worried about today here. Watch the video. It’s only 2 1\/2 minutes!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The latest thing I’m worrying about is our Kickstarter campaign, but here again, statistics cheer me up. Two years ago, we did a Kickstarter campaign with a goal of $20,000. I should have researched a bit better in advance because even though Kickstarter touted\u00a0 the 44% success rate that is an average (there’s that knowledge of statistics again). Things that were less likely to get funded were projects seeking over $10,000, game projects and projects not featured on Kickstarter. We fit all three. Pretty depressing. In fact, looking at the statistics after<\/strong><\/em> we had started our campaign last time I found that less than 5% of campaigns raised over $20,000.![\"Ronda](\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rondawins.jpg\")
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\nWell, we made it. You’d think we have learned our lesson, but due to a couple of reasons, I’ll go into another day, we decided to do ANOTHER Kickstarter two years later. So, here we are today.<\/p>\n