90/10 principle
Had heard or rather read bout this before. But in a different form.
Today Randolf mentioned it again and I read a mail his elder brother had sent him regarding this.
Its bout the fact that 10% of wat happens in ur life is beyond ur control. Like a traffic jam on hosur road, a power cut one day before the exam etc etc.
But the remaining 90% is in ur control. Like a traffic jam on hosur road can leave u sulking n as a result with a bad start to the day, ur day usually takes a bad shape (self fulfilling prophecy :o)). Or u can smile at the jam, look at the vehicles on the road, on the reactions of the fellow passengers on the bus, read a book, listen to radio mirchi etc etc.
Really nice principle. Coz if one beleives this, then one would learn to take responsibility for one's actions and their results and stop blaming destiny or luck for them. Coz I for one beleive that watever happens or is happening or will happen, we ourselves are responsible.
So we write our own destiny, our own fate.
Before I end, if u have read Stefen Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", then u would recognize that this 90/10 principle is basically the same as Circle of Influence and Circle of Concern :o)
Today Randolf mentioned it again and I read a mail his elder brother had sent him regarding this.
Its bout the fact that 10% of wat happens in ur life is beyond ur control. Like a traffic jam on hosur road, a power cut one day before the exam etc etc.
But the remaining 90% is in ur control. Like a traffic jam on hosur road can leave u sulking n as a result with a bad start to the day, ur day usually takes a bad shape (self fulfilling prophecy :o)). Or u can smile at the jam, look at the vehicles on the road, on the reactions of the fellow passengers on the bus, read a book, listen to radio mirchi etc etc.
Really nice principle. Coz if one beleives this, then one would learn to take responsibility for one's actions and their results and stop blaming destiny or luck for them. Coz I for one beleive that watever happens or is happening or will happen, we ourselves are responsible.
So we write our own destiny, our own fate.
Before I end, if u have read Stefen Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", then u would recognize that this 90/10 principle is basically the same as Circle of Influence and Circle of Concern :o)
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posted by Anurag at
3:15 AM
3 Comments:
;) a variation on it, is the principle that 80% of the work is done by 10% of the people.
And yes tis a lot like Stephen Covey's principle of taking responsibility for only the things you can.
80% of the work is done by 20% of the people - The Pareto Principle.
@hitchhiker
haan haan.....wohi.... :o)
@vinay
there is this other pareto principle in economics also....but we will leave that :o)
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