the fifty percent framework is why you should always want to hire other people even if they can't do it as well as you think about this for a second you have one hundred percent as your max capacity you can do if you could hire ten people at fifty percent that means you have five hundred percent no matter how good you are you will never be as good as ten fifty percent performers if we scale that up to people who are eighty ninety percent performers we're talking about almost a thousand percent compared to your hundred percent