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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.” -Mark Twain
A good book is like downloading a new app onto the operating system that is your consciousness.
Amazing books are spellbooks, and they teach you spells that help you reconfigure your reality.
The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan is a fucking spell book.
And the spell is, “What is the One thing you can do, such that by doing so, everything else becomes either easier or unnecessary?”
This is the question, the spell, that if you start to use everyday, you’ll start skipping ahead toward your goal.
This book is a crowning jewel of the philosophy I tried articulating in my post, Addition by Subtraction.
Most of what we do is wasteful, both of our time and in producing results.
There is an economic law called “Pareto’s Law,” or better known as the 80/20 principle.