One of the things I learned in my previous subject just this last

semester which was the ‘Work Study and Measurement’, and what I found a really
helpful concept to improve my day-to-day thinking and decision-making was the
Pareto Principle. So Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 Rule, essentially
tells us that the 20% of our activities or what we habitually do will account for the
80% of our results.

In simpler words and in my own understanding, more is not always

better. We ought to think that doing more and focusing on so many things will
yield us better results. However, this principle says otherwise. You would want to
focus on the “vital few” or the 20%, those tasks that will really make a significant
difference, instead of spreading yourself thin across everything. This rule will
make us realize that we should learn how to weigh things, because not all kinds of
expansion are worth spending our time and energy on. This rule will also help us
achieve much more, but with less yet effective effort and strategy.

I also realized that in this world, to be great at whatever we are

pursuing, we don’t have to know a lot of information and capitalize on every
opportunity. We only have to be really good at one style, make an effective system,
and then maximize it all out. Also, I would like to add this one of the most quoted
lines from Bruce Lee, “I fear not the man who has practiced 10, 000 kicks once,
but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10, 000 times.”