“Success is a few simple disciplines, practised every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day” …Jim Rohn
How much is 1% ? Not much, is it not ? but the experts think
otherwise ….
source: jamesclear.com
“In the beginning, there is basically no
difference between making a choice that is 1 percent better or 1 percent worse.
(In other words, it won’t impact you very much today.) But as time goes on,
these small improvements or declines compound and you suddenly find a very big
gap between people who make slightly better decisions on a daily basis and
those who don’t. This is why small choices don’t make much of a difference at
the time, but add up over the long-term.” …..James
Clear
Why just focusing on the 1% produces results?
“My professor said that in an attempt to
understand the law—or, for that matter, just about anything—the key was to
focus on what he termed the “one percent.” Don’t get lost in the crabgrass of
details, he urged us. Instead, think about the essence of what you’re
exploring—the one percent that gives life to the other ninety-nine.
Understanding that one percent, and being able to explain it to others, is the
hallmark of strong minds and good attorneys.” …Daniel Pink in “To Sell is Human”
Aggregation of Marginal gains:
In 2012 Olympics, whether it be the ladies
road race, the men’s time trial, or the many events in the velodrome, the
British cycling team were incredible. As
the commentators effused over the team’s performance, they hailed Performance
Director Dave Brailsford as a kind of demi-god. So what is Brailsford’s recipe
for success ?...he tells us below…
“We’ve got this saying, ‘performance by the aggregation
of marginal gains’. It means taking the 1% from everything you do; finding a 1%
margin for improvement in everything you do. That’s what we try to do from the
mechanics upwards.If a mechanic sticks a tyre on, and someone
comes along and says it could be done better, it’s not an insult – it’s because
we are always striving for improvement, for those 1% gains, in absolutely every
single thing we do.”
So what do you think of one percent now?