PN: One thing massive consequences

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The question is: "What is the one thing I can do, such that by doing it everything else will become easier or unnecessary?"

Applying the one thing question to your micro and macro goals will result in less clutter, distractions, and stress and it will help you have more energy, happiness, and productivity.

Why? Because there is usually one thing which when done will have a massive impact on the goal you're trying to achieve. It's the Pareto principle taken to the extreme.

The Pareto principle says that roughly 80% of effects come from 20% of causes. Ex. 80% of the juice is gotten from 20% of squeezing, 20% of criminals commit 80% of crimes, 20% of employees are responsible for 80% of the results.

If you follow it further (roughly) then 64% of effects come from 4% of causes. Even further, 51.2% of the effects come from 0.8% of causes. This means that if you have 100 different inputs, 1 will have an impact on output bigger than the remaining 99 combined. As an example, the world's richest 1 percent, those with more than $1 million, own 44 percent of the world's wealth – pretty close right?

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