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Originally Posted by Philangicality
I have identified my "vital few" as my focus on the goals I want accomplished (20% of my efforts.)
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Part of the deal with Pareto Distributions is, it's most effectively distinguished after the fact. You look back on a process or epoch and see that, hey, look, 80% of the consequences stemmed from those 20% of causes over there. That's why it's used as a measuring stick in QA processes, where you're looking back at results and figuring out what worked and what didn't. Distinguishing the key 20% of causes in advance is well neigh impossible.
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I am not picking on you ratbastid, it is just that you have the most understanding of the Pareto Princapal thus far so I am explaining myself based upon my understanding of your understanding.
Realize that I have not done much research on the Pareto Principal, my beliefs are based off of material I have heard. Including your explanation.
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I'm pretty clear on what you think you know about Pareto Distributions, and I
have studied it, and I'm telling you, you're misapplying it, and you're doing so in a very common way. It's not intended to be used to force out that 80%. It's a commentary on the uselessness of most actions.
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Right, but this particular self-help method that I am using is rooted in from Scientific Law. The Law of Attraction.
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Now look, I'm a BIG believer in the Law of Attraction, but to actually put it on the same shelf with the Law of Gravity is another misapplication of a concept. For sure you get what you ask for in life--in my personal cosmology, the universe is one giant Intention Fulfillment Machine. But there's nothing linear or demonstrable or repeatable about that. The necessary conditions for a scientist to call something a law aren't applicable to Attraction. I don't care what two recent popular films have told you, the "Law of Attraction" isn't a scientific law the same way gravity is. I've
enjoyed those two films, don't get me wrong.
If you're empowered by applying this structure to your life, then--as I said above--more power to you. I'm interested to see how it works for you. Might be great. I'm not telling you not to do it, or that it's a stupid idea, in other words. Literally my ONLY quibble with this is the use of the term Pareto Principle to describe it. (Well, and that and the idea of factoring the Pareto Distribution to cut your focus time down to 3 or 4 days a year seems to me like a bad idea).
Do you not like focus? Are you trying to avoid it, and have lots of fun instead? Because you've got "work" in your buffer time... So what sorts of things will you use focus time for?
By the way... how old are you? What do you do for a living?