💭 # 13 - Pareto Principle / How to Avoid Half-Heartedness / How to Build Nourishing Friendships
Hi friends, welcome to the latest edition of One Percent Wiser, a compendium of resources to help you live better.
More effort is wasted doing things that don’t matter than is wasted doing things inefficiently. Elimination is the highest form of optimization. ~ James Clear
🤔 80/20 is the New Half-Ass
Shawn Wang | April 2021 | Optimal Thinking
The 80/20 (Pareto) principle is the idea that 20% of your effort is what really counts, and the rest is wasted. Unfortunately it is usually not clear which is the 20% that matters. I instinctively quite like this concept, however Shawn argues here that in practice it is used as an excuse for laziness. In response to this criticism, David Golen wrote a defence of the 80/20 rule here. So what do you think? Have you used the 80/20 principle successfully in your life? Hit reply and let me know.
🥑 How to Avoid Half-Heartedness
Ava | March 2021 | Living Intentionally
This piece is principally about love, but really it is about how you do anything. If you are going to love, love deeply. If you have a job, give it your best shot. Every line of this article is profound, but in particular this ending "Choose what nourishes you every day. See how strong you become when you remember that love is just reassertation, choosing something over and over. Do it one more time & watch mundane repetition become something transcendent."
👯♂️ The Social Biome: How to Build Nourishing Friendships
Moya Sarner | March 2021 | Finding Meaning
I really like this concept of a social biome. Of course the big relationships in our lives matter enormously, whether that is as a brother, mother, sister or friend. But the smaller interactions that make up the fabric of our lives also contribute to our mental wellbeing. It is these relationships we have to rebuild as we emerge from our Covid hibernation.
Welcome to everyone who joined the newsletter this week. I hope that some of the ideas here resonated with you and help you live more intentionally.
Thanks for reading 🙏
Jamie
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