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Spend Your Time Wisely

Spend Your Time Wisely

  • Choose activities to work on based on their relevance to your north star.
  • Focus your time on just one of these truly important activities at a time (no multitasking!), making it the top idea on your mind.
  • Select between options based on opportunity cost models. 
  • Use the Pareto principle to find the 80/20 in any activity and increase your leverage at every turn.
  • Recognize when you’ve hit diminishing returns and avoid negative returns.
  • Use commitment and the default effect to avoid present bias, and periodic evaluations to avoid loss aversion and the sunk-cost fallacy.

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