Whats this law?
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Theres a saying (or a 'law', not a legal one, if you see what I mean) whereby:
Part of the effort of doing something (As long as you 'just do it') even if you dont reach all the goals, etc yields most of the consequences of the 'thing'
An example is cleaning the shed. If you just go in and do it, even if you dont sweep the floor, and even if all your tools are not put back in the 100% correct place, the shed will look 'tidy' or 'tidier'.
Its got a name.
Does anyone know what im talking about?
Part of the effort of doing something (As long as you 'just do it') even if you dont reach all the goals, etc yields most of the consequences of the 'thing'
An example is cleaning the shed. If you just go in and do it, even if you dont sweep the floor, and even if all your tools are not put back in the 100% correct place, the shed will look 'tidy' or 'tidier'.
Its got a name.
Does anyone know what im talking about?
Kiltie said:
Yeah, sounds like Pareto to me.
I struggle to put it into context of the shed analogy. Best I can think of is as follows.
Yup, that's pretty much it. The other 80% effort goes into lining up all of the screws in that jamjar you have into length order, and silly things like that. You could step outside the shed and use a lawn analogy - giving it a quick swipe with a flymo will make it fine, but you could spend hours on it with a hoe, strimmer, shears, heavy roller, and so forth, and only a lawn afficionado would notice. I struggle to put it into context of the shed analogy. Best I can think of is as follows.
- 100% tidying effort yields a 100% tidy shed.
- However, 20% initial tidying effort will result in an 80% tidy shed.
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