Steven Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Did you see Titanic?

The movie, not the ship.

I did.

My favorite part wasn't a love story, though.

Human emotions are messy and unpredictable.

My favorite part was when the ship had hit the iceberg,

and the engineer comes up to the captain and says,

we're going to sink. It is a mathematical certainty. Numbers are precise and predictable. That's

cool. What's even more cool is that he could predict this as the ship appeared to be doing just

fine. Everyone was still dancing and eating dinner and having a jolly good time. Even the poor third-class passengers who were locked in steerage trying to catch mice for dinner were partying.

And all the while, it was a mathematical certainty that they were going down.

As my recent episode on the 330 rule shows, you can use simple math to understand the mathematical

certainties of the

world around you. Some of these are fun certainties, yay! Others you'd really rather not know about.

Today, I'll share four ways you can use simple math for profound insight. Math dude would be

proud. Tip number one, calculate a break-even. When I work with business clients, whether they're

entrepreneurs, corporate executives, boy scouts, or girls' scouts, I teach them to calculate a

break-even. Break-even tells you how many more of something you have to sell to cover your costs.

You just divide your cost by the money you make selling something. People tell me I should

make a Get It Done Guy app.

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