Deep Thinking - My Effectiveness is Where?

I have been reading Richard Koch's (no relation) 80/20 Principle to decide if I will spend $10,000+ flying to Chicago in September to be part of his 3 day seminar on the Star Principle. The Star Principle is a biz concept Richard built atop of the 80/20 Principle, and it helped him amass a fortune of $250 million. You don't often find guys like this giving seminars - good to listen. Not cheap. Two lines jumped out at me, one funny, one serious. First the funny one:

"It transpires that movie goers behave just like gas particles in random motion. As identified by chaos theory, gas particles, pingpong balls or movie goers all behave at random, but produce a predictably unbalanced result."

Hmmm, have to remember that next time I fart at the movies. The other quote:

"…the 80/20 Principle can be used to raise the level at which you are operating in both your work and personal life."

Those following my deep thinking series know that yesterday I posed the question: where are you most effectively using your time? Alexander nailed this one by describing it thus:

"It makes the experience it feeds upon."

Positive feedback loops - where are they in your life? Where does just a little effort from you loop around to generate over time a disproportionate result? As I meditated on that question, the answer that came back was rather shocking: it's when I think, deep thinking. Just sit there quietly, take an important question, and stay with it for as long as it takes to produce a result that finally resembles NO expectation of what I thought I was about to find… Years later, these little thoughts turn in complex enterprises. Sound familiar? Now it's your turn. Tell me - where are YOU most effective?