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80/20 Habits, Beliefs and Products
13 ideas that made a tangible difference in 2021.
What are the 80/20 products, habits and beliefs that have made an outsized impact on your life in 2021?
This was the topic of one of the episodes on the Sh*t You Don’t Learn in School podcast by Steph Smith and Calvin Rosser.
The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto principle, says that roughly 80% of your results will come from 20% of your actions. The core interpretation is that you need to identify your best assets and maximize them to gain the maximum value.
I started thinking — what were the 20% of my actions that led to 80% of my results? Obviously, this is not a hard-and-fast mathematical law, but it’s a good exercise to think through. It fits my 2022 resolution of consistently simplifying what I’m doing: determine what’s working and double down on that. Remove everything else.
Before I knew it, I had a list of 13 things I feel have been instrumental for me this year and could be valuable for anyone looking to make changes in their lives — ranging from productivity and learning to health and mindset.
Here they are, in no particular order.
