Day 15 | Daily Dose of learning
This project is inspired by the ‘100-day project’, a challenge consisting of committing to doing an activity everyday for 100 days.
I have decided to write about one thing I learn everyday for the next 30 days. This can be a skill, a deep concept to elaborate on, or a mere life lesson that made me become aware of something I consider relevant.
The decision is based on the belief that “we are what we repeatedly do”, as Valentin Perez put it.
1 % better, consistently
The idea is rather straightforward and simple to understand. Yet, not that intuitive to put into practice. While reading an article by James Clear, today I’ve come across the infamous 1% rule, very preached in the productivity world and often explained through the British cycling team example of the perfect application of this concept.
The 1% rule states that by improving one percent consistently over the long run, results will increase exponentially for the better (‘results’ may just mean becoming a more knowledgeable individual or learning to play an instrument). James Clear writes about the 1% rule in his book ‘Atomic Habits’, whose excerpt about the anecdote of the British cycling team can be read here.
graph from the article by James Clear which shows the compound effect of small improvements. Click here for the source.