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Focus on the Vital Few
The 80/20 Principle, also known as the Pareto Principle, is one of the most
practical universal laws that can help you avoid many hardships and achieve
more with much less work.
One of the most common reasons why people give up is because they
become overwhelmed. For instance, when you start learning a new language,
you’ve yet to become aware of how many things – grammar, vocabulary, proper

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pronunciation and intonation – you don’t know. In psychology, it’s called
unconscious incompetence.
When you go from this phase to the second stage – conscious incompetence –
you realize the vast deficits in your knowledge. It’s during this stadium that
many people give up, terrified or discouraged by how much they have to learn.
The rule of the vital few says that the minority of things matter a great deal
and the majority of things don’t matter a lot. The key is to focus on just a couple
of crucial things and disregard the rest. Your task becomes manageable again,
and you keep going with much less effort.
When you apply this rule during the stage of conscious incompetence, you’ll
reduce the risk of giving up.
In the case of learning languages, it’s usually the ability to communicate with
native speakers – basic sentences and phrases are much more important than
proper grammar or getting the intonation right.
In the case of building a business, it’s getting your first client, the next one,
and the next one. Leave thinking about more complex business tasks for later.
In fitness, you don’t have to learn more than a few basic movements (squat,
deadlift, bench press, overhead press, chin-up). All the other exercises aren’t
necessary for most trainees.
Deconstruct each of your goals in a similar way and don’t let the complexity
deter you from making progress.