we find that the average brit average german average trans person works about sixteen hours sixteen hundred hours a year average executive or business owner works about two thousand hours a year so what you do is you take your annual income and you divide it by two thousand let's say you're earning hundred thousand pounds a year divided by two thousand that means that you're earning fifty pounds now this is your hourly rate that means by law ricardo's law law of comparative advantage is you don't do anything that pays less than fifty dollars an hour you only do things that pay you fifty dollars an hour or more and everything else you delegate if there's something that someone else can do for ten pounds an hour you hire somebody to do that twenty pounds an hour thirty pounds an hour you keep hiring people who can do things at a lower hourly rate than yourself but here's the great discovery and this can is life changing i call it the law of three the law of three says that no matter how many things you do how many tasks you do in a week or a month and it's usually twenty or thirty three of those tasks account for ninety percent of your value you make a list of all of your tasks if you could only do one thing on this list one fast and there's this all day long which one task would have the greatest positive impact on your career so you put a so far then you say if you could only do two things all day long which would be number two and you put a circle around it if you could only do three things all day long which would be number three and you realize oh my god everything else is secondary