Life Lessons
4 Things You Should Learn Today That'll Be Useful the Rest of Your Life
Simple, effective, consistent tips that will improve your productivity, communication skills, and more.
In the late 1960s, my grandmother began choking on a steak at a wedding party. She fell to the floor unconscious, and after three days in a coma, passed away. Nobody at the wedding party knew the Heimlich maneuver (it wasn’t taught very often). And because of that, I never got to meet my grandmother.
Today, most people know such basic skills and lessons that could change someone’s life. There are other, unusual, deceptively simple things that deliver profound value — with very little effort.
Leverage an unusual productivity principle
The Pareto principle is a far-reaching statistical phenomenon.
It’s anchored in an 80:20 system. For example, in healthcare, 80% of costs stem from roughly 20% of patients. In sales, 20% of products often constitute 80% of sales volume.
Even Microsoft uses the Pareto principle: they realized that solving the top 20% of commonly reported bugs stopped Windows from crashing 80% of the time.
