One Percent.

I’m reading Atomic Habits right now and one of the ideas that James Clear talks about is the idea of becoming one percent better every day. He first presents this idea by talking about the British Cycling team and how their team was probably one of the most mediocre teams in the world until they hired Dave Brailsford as their new performance director in 2003. Brailsford and his team, in just five years, took the team from winning only one olympic gold medal in the past century to winning 60 percent of the available gold medals at the 2008 Olympics. In only five years, the entire program was turned around. To even get to this point, Brailsford and his team focused on making every aspect of their training and performance just one percent better. Whether it was the seats the cyclists used, the pillows they slept on, or the color of the inside of the team trucks, every little thing was improved upon just a little bit. Although one percent better may not seem extremely significant, it turns out that one percent can make all the difference. 

If we get one percent better every day for one year, we’d end up 37 percent better. If we go the opposite way and get one percent worse everyday for a year, we would decline nearly down to zero. 

I’m not really here to say much except this:

Do more and be better. Reading that shit scared me and I hope it scares you. Find some way to get better today. Even if it’s only stretching, fixing your bed, or slowing down to breathe for one minute, do that. 

Send this shit to the people who need it. Don't let your friends get to zero lmao.

To Live and Prosper.

- JSquared