When I read Atomic Habits, my understanding of his chart was this: Since it is completely impossible to improve 37x at anything over the course of a year, we therefore can infer that 1% improvement daily is also impossible. Therefore, we should content ourselves with what feel like _extremely_ small consistent gains, because anything more is unrealistic.
I also think that is his underlaying idea, but I just see it many places being taught as if it is possible if you just put in the work. And that made me want to find out the story behind it.
"The philosophy of marginal gains is attributed to Sir Dave Brailsford and his tenure with British Cycling as performance director."
Truth is - widely known now but apparently not when Atomic Habits was written - Brailsford was heavily involved in doping.
Marginal Gains is a very useful theory in that regard. You get to explain significant performance improvement occuring despite no visible change in training / performance.
When I read Atomic Habits, my understanding of his chart was this: Since it is completely impossible to improve 37x at anything over the course of a year, we therefore can infer that 1% improvement daily is also impossible. Therefore, we should content ourselves with what feel like _extremely_ small consistent gains, because anything more is unrealistic.
I also think that is his underlaying idea, but I just see it many places being taught as if it is possible if you just put in the work. And that made me want to find out the story behind it.
"The philosophy of marginal gains is attributed to Sir Dave Brailsford and his tenure with British Cycling as performance director."
Truth is - widely known now but apparently not when Atomic Habits was written - Brailsford was heavily involved in doping.
Marginal Gains is a very useful theory in that regard. You get to explain significant performance improvement occuring despite no visible change in training / performance.
* despite no visible change in training / preparation, I meant to say.
Eg
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/mar/05/team-sky-report-david-brailsford-inquiry
Why does the headline say "flawed"? 🤔
yeah i wonder too