You are more than this - Part 2

Jerry and Joe were bosom friends who went to the same high school several years ago.

These two friends were experiencing rejection in their lives at this time. Jerry had been having some day dreams and he confided his best friend – Joe.

Joe didn’t have Jerry’s talent for story telling but he was a very good artist. He could draw just about anything and make it look like it was just about to walk off the page.

Together, the 2 friends spent a lot of time thinking up fantastic stories, and Joe would illustrate them with vivid drawings. They went on this way for some time after graduating from high school until finally, the complete picture of what the boys had been working on emerged.

The character possessed super human powers. Jerry imagined the character was being born on the doomed planet – Krypton, arriving in a spaceship as an infant and being discovered and raised by a childless couple.

When the boy grew up, he hid his super powers from others by working as a mild-mannered newspaper reporter.

Joe sketched out the character as fast as Jerry wrote about his adventures. After sometime, the character emerged as SUPERMAN. They became excited about their creation and began to send proposals and the illustrated story of superman to publishers.

But, they were disappointed as the publishers only sent back a pile of rejection letters.

In 1983, the superman stories landed on the desk of the publisher of DC comics who was impressed, he bought the exclusive rights to the superman character on the spot and then gave both young men jobs at the company. Jerry and Joe felt on top of the world! Here they were, only 23 years, employed full time with the leading publisher of comic books. It was a dream come true.

As we all know, the super man character became a huge hit with the American public. Since its debut, Superman has generated untold profits from comic books sales, licensing deals, television series feature films, and more. The first superman movie alone made more than $100m.

The monetary value of the superman character since its inception in 1938 must be in the billions of dollars.

But the painful thing is that Jerry and Joe were paid only $130. why? Because they underestimated their value signed away their rights to the superman character worth billions for a measly $130. That’s $65 per person!

That is painful, very painful.

Don’t ever underestimate your value. That is the summary of today.

We will continue on this topic in the next edition of fresh motivation.

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