Pareto’s law states that 80% of the efforts in a project yield 20% and vice versa. That is, most of the efforts used to complete a particular project generate only a fifth of the real results. So one might ask, but what is that 20% that allows me to obtain the vast majority of results? How do I locate it? Can I separate it from the rest of the work, so that more attention is paid to this part? The answers to these questions are actually not so obvious. One could also reformulate the principle as a function of time. In other words, how do I figure out what part of the time dedicated to completing a project fits into that magical 20%? It’s a bit like asking which part of a movie you’ve just seen you like best. Some parts are more interesting and engaging than others, but then you add up the whole thing to judge the whole thing. Indeed, a story needs a beginning, a middle and an end, as well as characters and a setting. If one of these parts is omitted, the whole is distorted, which is different from the individual parts themselves.
Creating a website for a client has many active parts, but also some dead, or non-paying ones. For example, when you wait for the Ok to use a certain feature on a page, in the meantime you could dedicate yourself to another project to increase the efficiency of the working time employed. This if we assume that we have enough energy to saturate our time with work. When, on the other hand, it happens that we are tired and begin to become irritable because internal stress increases, then it is better to stop and rest a little. Some might answer by saying that resting is part of that 80% that makes only 20%. This could also be true, but it is essential to give the mind a break by diverting attention from the problem at hand. The benefits of rest are many:

• more focus when you go back to work,

• the mind is more creative and manages to arrive at unexpected solutions with little effort, making connections more quickly,

• you are less nervous when interacting with customers, enhancing the human side of the interaction, as well as the professional one,

• you live better

Now you don’t need to go fishing for some scientific article to experience the benefits of rest. All you need is a little common sense and be careful of the stimuli that our body sends us.
In conclusion, Pareto’s law, used mostly in statistics to increase the profits of companies, can be applied to every sector, if one remembers not to cross the line between animal and machine, or rather to always reach the right compromise between work and rest, to enhance the quality of life of the human being. The important thing is the consistency and dedication that is put into play on a daily basis.