Becoming Superhuman
The Ultimate Guide To Strive For Quality Over Quantity
About the Pareto principle, opportunity cost, top-down approach, the 5-max rule, pyramid of Maslow, and the Lindy effect
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11 min readNov 12, 2019
Keywords and ideas
- Quality → depends on your (life) goals;
- Final goals → your life goal;
- Instrumental goals → short-term goals meant to bring you closer toward your life goal;
- Opportunity cost → when an option is chosen from alternatives, the opportunity cost is the “cost” incurred by not enjoying the benefit associated with the best alternative choice;
- Pareto principle → for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes;
- Top-down approach → working toward a final goal;
- Bottom-up approach → more “organic growth” of final and instrumental goals;
- The 5-max rule → limit yourself to 5 instrumental goals that you work on either simultaneously (interleaving) or from most to least important;
- Acquisition rate + the 5-max rule → the rate at which you either acquire new items and/or replace existing items with items that have lower opportunity costs;
- Pyramid of Maslow → each of these individual levels contains a certain amount of internal sensation that must be met in order for an…
