The One Thing That Changes All

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else, isn’t it?As I’ve said the Pareto principle gets talked about a lot. What is discussed less frequently is that you can apply the Pareto principle to itself over and over again. You arrive at the 1/50. One percent of your efforts are responsible for 50% of the outcomes. Gary Keller wrote a book about this: The ONE thing. James Altucher describes it in his Skip the Line as well.<blockquote id="8a42">The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. — Stephen Covey</blockquote>Now the principle makes sense. In the beginning, when you focus on 1 thing alone, you will see huge results. The step of going from no friend to 1 friend is enormous. After a while though you hit diminishing returns. Going from 9 to 10 friends doesn’t give much more extra satisfaction. Working 10 hours instead of 9 won’t make you much more productive.Now, it becomes especially interesting, when you take a meta perspective at this. What is the 1 thing in all your

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life, that sets the pace for everything else? That is, of course, after you get all your necessities for staying alive in place: food, water, shelter, and so on.What do you say? Maybe it’s language? Someone you love?To me the answer is clear, and as always this might be of no surprise to you:It’s seeing your thoughts, feelings, and sensations clearly and recognizing yourself as awareness.It’s the ONE thing that makes everything else run smoother.For brevity, I call this meditation. It’s the ONE meta-skill that makes acquiring any other skill easier. It’s working on the ONE relationship, that makes any other relationship more fluent. It’s working on the ONE realization, that makes all other realizations come more easily.<blockquote id="21ca">Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle</blockquote>What is your 1 thing?Have a day where you get your 1 thing done,David Hip</article></body>

What the one thing is for me and how it changed my life

When you read non-fiction books it’s hard to not stumble upon certain core themes, studies, and concepts.

One of them is the Pareto principle. 20% of the efforts lead to 80% of the outcomes. It applies to a great many things. The tendency was first discovered by Pareto concerning Italy’s land being largely owned by 20%, but Pareto himself didn’t see the significance behind this

It was Joseph Juran who rediscovered the results and made it the law we know today. (as a sidenote: It’s quite rare to name something you discover after someone else, isn’t it?

As I’ve said the Pareto principle gets talked about a lot. What is discussed less frequently is that you can apply the Pareto principle to itself over and over again. You arrive at the 1/50. One percent of your efforts are responsible for 50% of the outcomes. Gary Keller wrote a book about this: The ONE thing. James Altucher describes it in his Skip the Line as well.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. — Stephen Covey

Now the principle makes sense. In the beginning, when you focus on 1 thing alone, you will see huge results. The step of going from no friend to 1 friend is enormous. After a while though you hit diminishing returns. Going from 9 to 10 friends doesn’t give much more extra satisfaction. Working 10 hours instead of 9 won’t make you much more productive.

Now, it becomes especially interesting, when you take a meta perspective at this. What is the 1 thing in all your life, that sets the pace for everything else? That is, of course, after you get all your necessities for staying alive in place: food, water, shelter, and so on.

What do you say? Maybe it’s language? Someone you love?

To me the answer is clear, and as always this might be of no surprise to you:

It’s seeing your thoughts, feelings, and sensations clearly and recognizing yourself as awareness.

It’s the ONE thing that makes everything else run smoother.

For brevity, I call this meditation. It’s the ONE meta-skill that makes acquiring any other skill easier. It’s working on the ONE relationship, that makes any other relationship more fluent. It’s working on the ONE realization, that makes all other realizations come more easily.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle

What is your 1 thing?

Have a day where you get your 1 thing done,

David Hip