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Is It Possible To Get 1% Better Every Day
The Simple answer is No, becoming better by 1% a day is impossible.
Even getting 0.1% better a day is a huge improvement. In a 365 day period you would get 1.4 times better than you were before!
While this may seem doable and realistic in theory, in ten years time this increases to becoming 38 times better than you were before, which is utterly unrealistic.
If we were to put this in terms of physical fitness it would be like a person being able to lift a person one year, and ten years later being able to lift a car with the same ease.
Changing the percentage, regardless of making it higher or lower, still has this exponentially increasing, unrealistic effect.
And people often misunderstand the meaning of this.
Make the difference between getting better overall and the expectations you have of yourself.
We have these expectations of ourselves that we must improve tremendously today to even have a shot at getting what we want, and it’s just not true.
Most of us would not even be satisfied with getting 10% better a day, when even 0.1% would get you way above and beyond where you wanted to go.
And it makes sense. It is possible to get better every day, but if you told…
