The 80-20 Learner

We can think of the eighty-five percent rule as the 80/20 rule when applied to failure itself, i.e., what’s the optimal level of failure if we want to learn more quickly and effectively?

Prioritize and skim: Start by reading the conclusion or last chapter of the book to understand the author's main arguments or conclusions.

Fail more than fifty percent of the time and it leads to anxiety and overwhelm.

Reading

It is through a mixture of success and failure that we can differentiate between effective and ineffective approaches, allowing for learning and progress.

He claimed that eighty percent of any outcome or phenomenon is actually the result of just twenty percent of the causes.

various learning algorithms perform best when the training error rate is around 15.87%, which translates to a training accuracy of approximately eighty-five percent.

Fail zero percent of the time and it leads to boredom and stagnation.

The aim is to work smarter rather than harder.