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Applying Pareto’s principle, 1/5 can lead to 4/5, so—by doing a Pareto of a Pareto—1/25 leads to 16/25, and therefore—doing a P-of-a-P-of-a-P—1/100 can yield 50% of the whole. Which is what my approach to school was. Which is exactly how I apply myself to multiple interests. It’s a playful way to engage. The dabbler’s way. It’s kind of the opposite of being a perfectionist. 

And it’s healthy because it turn life into a game. It takes out the seriousness of it all.

In Barbara Sher’s book, Refuse to Choose, she labels people with this outlook ‘scanners’.