Aug 23, 2026 · 15 min · 16 segments
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So principle number six, strive to work in the most efficient and effective way possible.
And this was partly because I am a perfectionist and a workaholic and simply did not know when was enough.
But also partly because I just did not know how to work in a way that was efficient or effective.
When you work efficiently, you can complete the same amount of work or the same work output in a smaller amount of time.
So in order to work both efficiently and effectively, I had to keep the following principles in mind.
80% of your results come down to 20% of your actions, meaning that 20% of your actions are contributing to the vast majority of your results.
For example, when I used to do, say, a 10-hour study day, I would spend 8 hours of that day doing things like rewriting notes or just trying to memorize stuff or highlighting things, all of which are just techniques which don't really help you and didn't really make any difference in terms of the actual grades that I ended up getting.
Then I would spend probably two hours on things like flashcards and practice tests and other types of active recall.
The goal is to focus your majority of your energy on the minority of tasks that contribute to the majority of your results.
So how do you actually work out what those tasks are? Well, that is where the second principle of principle six comes in.
You bought new activewear, you found new workouts, you found new recipes, you did a tour of a gym, and you still don't have abs.
Technically, you're working towards it, so why don't you have results? This is because you are stuck in soft action and trying to convince yourself that it's productive.
Yet often we spend so long stuck in our soft action and completely pack our schedules with it, when in reality we haven't actually dedicated a single minute towards doing the hard action, which is the stuff that actually matters, i.e. doing the thing.
So principle number six, strive to work in the most efficient and effective way possible.
And this was partly because I am a perfectionist and a workaholic and simply did not know when was enough.
But also partly because I just did not know how to work in a way that was efficient or effective.
When you work efficiently, you can complete the same amount of work or the same work output in a smaller amount of time.
So in order to work both efficiently and effectively, I had to keep the following principles in mind.
80% of your results come down to 20% of your actions, meaning that 20% of your actions are contributing to the vast majority of your results.
For example, when I used to do, say, a 10-hour study day, I would spend 8 hours of that day doing things like rewriting notes or just trying to memorize stuff or highlighting things, all of which are just techniques which don't really help you and didn't really make any difference in terms of the actual grades that I ended up getting.
Then I would spend probably two hours on things like flashcards and practice tests and other types of active recall.
The goal is to focus your majority of your energy on the minority of tasks that contribute to the majority of your results.
So how do you actually work out what those tasks are? Well, that is where the second principle of principle six comes in.
You bought new activewear, you found new workouts, you found new recipes, you did a tour of a gym, and you still don't have abs.
Technically, you're working towards it, so why don't you have results? This is because you are stuck in soft action and trying to convince yourself that it's productive.
Yet often we spend so long stuck in our soft action and completely pack our schedules with it, when in reality we haven't actually dedicated a single minute towards doing the hard action, which is the stuff that actually matters, i.e. doing the thing.
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