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I Stopped Complaining, Used the “Pareto Principle” And Instantly Earned more

I simply reminded myself what it was and how it could help me

Richard Harding
3 min readJul 31, 2021
Young woman, head in hands, staring at her laptop in frustration
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First of all, what is the “Pareto Principle?” The “Pareto Principle” states that 80% of your results will come from 20% of your work.

If we read that quickly, it can kind of lead us down the wrong path.

Let me explain. It sounds like we only need to do a small amount of work in order to achieve great results. However, it doesn’t work like that because we don’t know which articles are going to prove the winners. If we did, we would just write those ones, right?

What we actually need to do is to produce a large enough body of work to consequently produce a large 20% pot. The bigger the pot, the better our chances.

If we accept all that, all we need to concern ourselves with here is to write, write more and write often.

If we want to earn more, we have to write more.

But what about the algorithm, and other things?

I hear you, and yes, things are constantly changing.

There are always things to complain about. Not just here, but in life in general.

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Richard Harding
Richard Harding

Written by Richard Harding

Still trying to feel my way through life. Love coffee and staying busy. Spending my time at: https://richardhardingonline.com/ richard@richardhardingonline.com

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