Mind & EverydayMental model

20 percent of your work delivers 80 percent of the result.

Vilfredo Pareto noticed in 1896 that 20 percent of Italians owned 80 percent of the land. The pattern shows up everywhere: 20 percent of customers bring most of the revenue, 20 percent of bugs cause most of the crashes. The exact numbers vary, but the core holds: effort and impact are distributed unequally, usually extremely so.

Useful: Find the few tasks that produce almost everything, and do those first.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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