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This is a very short book. Nothing wrong with that. His approach to moving fast and aiming for 80 per cent of your goal or project is essentially a psychological trick to get you to take action without making perfect plans and wasting time on perfect strategy. It is a very good and easy system indeed and I do think it will make a tremendous difference to people who are in the habit of procrastinating. Learning by doing is the fastest way to success IMO and this is a learning by doing strategy. I...
The 80% diagram shows our first attempt at anything yields roughly 80% good enough no matter how hard we try so this helps us eliminate perfectionism. Therefore do the first run of 80% as quickly as possible as most often its good enough. If need another 80% run on the project then look to execute quickly! THIS SECOND RUN TAKES US FROM 80% TO 96% QUALITY! 2 MENTAL HABITS THAT PARALYZE:Perfectionism (unable to make decision and commit). Procrastination (refusal to take action until ideal is guara...
The 80% approach is very useful and I personally need to work on my own - being a perfectionist and, eventually, a procrastinator. Thank you very much for summarising the concept and its advantages, I really needed this!
my dad made me read this.
Sort of a long blog entry with one idea and lots of reasons for it. I’ve no idea how or when it ended up on my kindle. Basic idea: entrepreneurs eschew both procrastination and perfectionism by completing 80% of a project. Huh then. So be a C+ student. Be good-enough. You may as well, because you get the same results anyway.That’s it.
This is a book to read once every six months. Simple concepts, yet in the midst of perfectionism and procrastination it's so easy to forget the answer is embodied in a single word: start.
By reading this book it is the shortest time you can bring an tremendous improvement in your efficiency.
Great short book. 80% is good enough. Stop thinking and take action! Forget perfection! Start now!!!