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The Last Ten Percent

David Gane
David Gane

After reading, watching, and listening to scripts, films, and ideas over the past months, I think it was this article from Seth Godin that helped define a question I had been asking myself about what separated the great from the average:

The last ten percent is the signal we look for, the way we communicate care and expertise and professionalism.
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Co-writer of the Shepherd and Wolfe young adult mysteries, the internationally award-winning series, and teacher of storytelling and screenwriting.

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