More clearly, with a minimum amount of effort you can come up with most of your desired results. A few short examples:

• 20% of the world’s population control 80% of its income.
• 20% of a company’s workers produce are responsible for 80% of its performance.
• 20% of the bugs are responsible for 80% of system crashes.
• 20% of clients are responsible for 80% of sales.
• 20% of the world’s newspapers are read by 80% of the population.
• 20% of a city’s streets are responsible for 80% of the traffic.
• 20% of criminals are responsible for 80% of the total crimes.
• 20% of the websites produce 80% of its traffic.

And we could go on forever. Just think about learning a new language, after a few months you’ll probably be able to have a conversation with someone in a foreign language, but by no means will be fluent – that takes a lot more effort.

However, keep in mind this is not a general truth, as the 80/20 principle does not apply to all circumstances, by no means. It’s pretty clear, though, that we can learn a great deal from its microeconomics applications and become more productive bloggers.