Power of Tiny Improvements!

Hey friends, how are you doing?

I’ve recently started reading this amazing book called Atomic Habits. It’s a book about forming tiny habits in our lives that can add up to a significant change in our lives. There is this point in this book that I feel like I should share with you people. It’s about making tiny improvements every day.

Anytime we think about making a change to our life whether to lose weight or get better ranks or anything, we try to make a huge leap in improvement at once. While this may work for some people, it makes a lot of us burn out making us want to give up.

Instead what James Clear suggests in his book Atomic Habits is to make a tiny improvement in everything you do every day. These tiny improvements may seem unnoticeable at the beginning, but they will add up to a significant improvement in the long run.

Because, if you improve by 1 percent every day for a year, you will end up being 37 times better than where you began. I know this sounds like a stretch, but this strategy will definitely bring a significant improvement in your lives (if not 37 times better).

Here is a graphical representation of this strategy from the book:

How this strategy made Britain win for the first time in 110 years:

James Clear mentioned this amazing example in his book. I’m sharing the example below ⬇️.

British cyclists haven’t won a single trophy in Tour de France since 1908. Their performance is so mediocre that one of the top bike manufacturers in Europe refused to sell their equipment to the team as it would hurt their reputation and sales if the Brits were seen using their gear.

In 2003, they hired Dave Brailsford to set Britain Cycling on a new trajectory. He broke down all the minor things that go into riding a bike and then improved it by 1% like using a more comfortable seat on the bicycle for rider comfort, rubbing alcohol on the tires for better grip, better suits for aerodynamics, and a lot.

They also took the overlooked aspects and improved them like having better mattresses so the players can have good sleep, and painting the interior of their team truck white so any dust can be easily detectable, thus preventing that dust from entering into finely tuned bikes.

All these changes seem to be negligible at first, but all these together made a huge difference. Just 5 years after Brailsford took over, the British Cycling team established dominance in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

• They won 60 percent of the medals available at the 2008 Olympics.

• They set nine Olympic records and seven world records in the 2012 Olympics.

• The same year, they won the first Tour de France.

• They continued to win the Tour de France in 2013, 2015, 2016, and 2017 (Five victories in six years).

Remember, this is the team that hasn’t won a single trophy in 110 years. That is the power of tiny improvements in the long run.

This is such an effective strategy I’m trying to incorporate into my life. I hope that you do too.

This is so nice to share with you. See you next week :)

- Teja

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