Definition: The 30/70 rule means spending 30% of your effort on input—gathering knowledge, asking questions, learning—and 70% on output—creating, solving, producing results.
Why It Matters: Output drives visible impact and progress. Without input, output lacks direction. Without output, input goes to waste. Balancing the two accelerates growth, innovation, and results.
We need guidance on what input we should gather, and the best is to ask what output do we want. Everyday I get bombarded by work tasks, master classes, readings, notes, news, social media. Sifting through them and reducing them the essence become a cumbersome work. Instead of a good mind to process all of them (I don’t think we can), we need to reduce the input and aim for output.
How It Works: Keep answering questions to maintain output momentum. Keep asking questions to improve output quality. Bring in relevant knowledge and methods to fill gaps in understanding.
• 30% input, 70% output is the secret.
• Keep answering questions: that’s output in motion.
• Keep asking questions: that’s how you set output conditions.
• Bring knowledge and methods in to fill the gaps.
• The process? Input fuels questions; questions spark output.
• Output grows when input is strategic and purposeful.
Ask good questions: whenever you get a new piece of information, ask the below questions:
What is in it for me?
How should my next move adapt to it?
how should I incorporate it into my system?
The Bottom Line: Focus on smart input to fuel strong output. This is how high performers consistently deliver and evolve. And REMEMBER, even if you think the output is shitty, make the output first, review it, correct it, one step at a time.
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