Inside the Minds of the Top 1%: 50 Remarkable Secrets That Set Them Apart
If you make 40k a year and have no debt… Wealth, globally speaking.
Eyesight. I have 20/10 vision, turns out only about 1% of people have better than normal 20/20 vision.
I’m a totally in the 0.2% of something. People who have a rather nasty reaction to the b***d thinner, Heparin. Lost half my toes because of how lucky I am.
Grandmaster in league of legends (0.02%) 😎, this results in not having a social life or girlfriend so don’t recommend.
Degrees. I have a BA, MA, JD and two PhD’s. If I’m not mistaken, less than 1% of the world has that many (and neither should I).
Birth control. 99% effective right? I’m living proof of the 1% XD.
(It’s cool though, my parents never acted like they didn’t want me.).
According to Amazon, I’m in the top 1% of kindle readers. They keep track of these things and within the last couple years started sharing the info with users as seasonal “Achievements.”
At the end of the Spring season, they sent out emails with the final data: from April 1st to June 31st I read:
74 days
For a total
193 hours.
I don’t really have a social life. As though that wasn’t clear enough from the stats
I’m of the .002% of people with osteopoikilosis. This freaked the s**t out of me because when I was diagnosed the first thing the doctor said was “wow I’ve never seen this in anything but textbooks before”…
I’m one of around 1% of people directly related to Swedens great king Gustav Vasa, still living. I’m one of 100k people.
I have AB- bloodtype. Less than 1% of the worlds population have it.
Im the 1% of the top students in my stem high school.
Hyperhidrosis. Excessively sweaty arm pits for no reason. I could be sitting there completely at ease and sweat rolls down my sides from my pits. I have found a product to fix the issue however I know no one else who has the same issue personally.
Not as interesting or cool as others but im in the 1% of the population that has no immunity to Rubella even though ive been vaccinated for it several time. Apparently some peoples bodies dont take to some vaccinations. Fine with everything else like mumps measels etc its just the rubella.
Ive also got type 2 duanes symdrone in my right eye. Duanes being a uncommon eye condition anyway, right eye being least common to have it in an type 2 the least common of its type out of the 3 types. Won the duanes lottery with that one.
I held a 2nd place world record for the Mushroom Gorge time trial in mariokart Wii for 15 minutes.
Edit: thanks for all the replies! Didn’t know this would touch the hearts of many!
I am diagnosed with Visual snow syndrome. Basically seeing through static. It may not be rare as thought but I am one of very few people to be formally diagnosed.
EDIT:
1) no this isn’t normal and sorry to all the people who found out they had VVS through my stupid Reddit comment lol
2) lots of ppl asked how I was diagnosed- I was at an eye specialist for an unrelated reason and he asked if I had any other concerns. I described my sight to him and he said that’s probably VVS. He referred me to a neurologist and she diagnosed me.
3) I don’t remember not seeing flickering dots. I’ve never done psychedelics. I was unaware d***s could worsen or cause it. Thanks for the warnings though! Definitely won’t be doing psychedelics now haha.
Infertile people. The people who can’t have children after a year of trying, for whom no treatment works, have no diagnosis to explain why, and end up the 1% of the 1% and move on to surrogacy/gestational carrier.
As a Lithuanian I belong to a nationality that makes up 0.03% of the world population.
Everyone is born with a space in the base of your skull, I have an enlarged space. The Dr called it an Enlarged *Cisterna Magna*.
Having it isn’t what makes me part of the 1%, it’s the fact that it hasn’t caused me any trouble or neurological issues that puts me there. It was only found when I had an MRI for migraines.
Edit: totally got the wrong wording. I’m sorry for misleading anyone, that came on the back of flu meds and little sleep.
I have stress induced migraines and hormonal ones too. Nothing to do with the lack of brain function, that just makes me a little dull 😁.
Being deaf.
Only 0.22% (roughly 600k people) across all age groups in the US are deaf. More than half are over the age of 65. I’ve been profoundly deaf since birth, so I’m in an even smaller percent than 0.22%. [laugh out loud]
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