The founder I know worth $10M+ works 4 hours a day

There's a founder I know worth $10M+ who only works 3-4 hours a day.

I asked him how he does it.

His answer was one sentence: "I hyper-focus on making fewer but better decisions."

I sat with that for a while because the implications go further than they first appear.

When most of us hear "work less, earn more," we assume the trick is delegation by hiring more people, pushing the work down and freeing up the calendar.

That's not what he was describing.

What he has is a different relationship with decisions.

He treats decisions as the actual unit of work.

The number of high-quality decisions he makes per week x by the leverage attached to each one, is what determines his life.

Everything else is downstream of that.

Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist, noticed in 1896 that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. He started looking for the same pattern elsewhere and found it everywhere from peas in his garden, productivity in factories, defects in manufacturing.

The Pareto Principle has held up across more than a century of empirical research since.

Roughly 20% of inputs produce 80% of outputs across almost any system you can measure.

Apply this to your work and the picture gets uncomfortable.

If 20% of the decisions you make this year produce 80% of your results, then everything you're doing outside that 20% is, by definition, stealing attention from the 20% that matters.

Buffett built one of the largest fortunes in human history operating this way. He doesn't trade, optimize, or hustle. He waits for the rare, asymmetric situations he understands deeply, then commits enormous capital to them.

A handful of good decisions, leveraged correctly, will outperform a 1000 mediocre ones over any timeframe long enough to matter.

This is what the $10M founder was describing when he said his team finds small anomalies and goes all in.

They're hunting the small dislocations nobody else has noticed yet, validating them quickly, and concentrating leverage on the ones that prove out.

Make 3 great decisions a quarter, leverage them correctly, and you'll outpace founders making 30 a week.

– Wiz

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