5. Trade-Offs Are Necessary

Those that are far from the frontier can focus on improving each element. You can improve by reorganizing your work to get more done.

But once you are on the productive frontier, things are different. Improvement comes from making hard choices about trade-offs.

• You live in a world where you must therefore make choices. You cannot avoid regret since there are opportunity costs for every choice you will make.
• Everything in life is about opportunity costs. Every time you say “yes” to a choice, you are also saying “no” to everything else you ...

Everything in your life exists because you first made a choice about something. Choice is at the center of all success and failure. It is what we choose that makes the biggest difference.

Too often we sleepwalk through our choices. We default to choices that our society an...