Instinct vs logic

How Giving It All You Got Is Sometimes the Road to Failure

Have you ever watched a movie where the bad guy is chasing the heroine through the jungle and somehow stumbles into a pit of quicksand? If so, you know there’s only one way to get out of quicksand. Your survival depends on remaining calm and finding some way to pull yourself out. Of course, the bad guy always seems to neglect that valuable bit of information. As he flails about trying to swim, he sinks deeper with each stroke until finally, only his hat remains resting atop the quicksand.

Chances are that you’re not in danger of running into quicksand, but the pitfalls of life surround us. We’re all prone to finding ourselves in a hole occasionally, and the principles of escaping remain the same. 

The 80/20 Rule

Most people live with the assumption that the relationship of effort to reward is one-to-one. We think that working twice as hard will net twice the income. Spending two hours at the gym gets you twice as ripped as only one. Yelling twice as loud makes you twice as right. We like the belief, but the extra effort often bears a lesser result.

Understanding the 80/20 rule, or Pareto Principle is one of the most beneficial concepts of life. The basic principle suggests that 20 percent of your effort will account for 80 percent of your results.

The 80/20 rule is found everywhere in life. In sales, 20 percent of salespeople make 80 percent of the money. Only 20 percent of the vocabulary makes up 80 percent of the sentences when learning a new language. At the gym, 20 percent of your effort results in 80 percent of your gains.

Now, we’re not saying to reduce your effort to 20 percent in everything you do. What we are saying is that you should decide what things in your life deserve the extra effort. In case you haven’t figured it out already, it’s about 20 percent of them.

Diminishing Returns

The law of diminishing returns applies mostly to the things you want or like most in life. If you enjoy eating pizza and decide you’re going to get pizza every night, each bite of pizza becomes less and less enjoyable.

This law applies to people as well. When you see that guy or girl across the room and decide to introduce yourself, it’s exciting. After you’ve been on a few dates, the excitement begins to wane as your relationship becomes routine. Finally, you decide to move in together, and eventually, your excitement transforms into feelings of comfort and companionship. 

Inverted Returns

The second scenario with that fantastic person across the room is that you say hello and get only a courtesy nod in return. You’re smitten, so you try again without as little as a return glance of acknowledgment. Now you’re thinking they’re playing hard to get. You start hanging around closer, flashing a smile and a playful wink. Still, nothing, but you’re not giving up. Eventually, your efforts turn creepy and end with a restraining order.

Inverted returns are almost always psychological. They’re when you think more effort will get you what you want but actually take you farther away from the goal.

The philosopher Aldous Huxley wrote, “The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed. Proficiency and results come only to those who have learned the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, or combining relaxation with activity.”

It Happens to Everyone

There’s probably not a better example of inverted returns for a guy than when your efforts with an attractive counterpart are about to get rewarded. It’s time to close the deal, but you’re not quite up to the task. Once you become conscious of your unmotivated appendage, it’s game over.

Sure, you’re gonna fight it. You’ll try to take your mind off it and stall with your partner, but you know that they know. After saying, “this never happened to me before,” you try to convince them to attempt CPR. A faint sign of life emerges only to fade once your mind notices the glimmer of hope. At last, the paramedic grows tired and ultimately pronounces the victim dead at the scene. 

You might have said it never happened before, but you know better. What can you do to help make sure this doesn’t happen to you again?

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