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Action is the way forward. So, we must give 110% effort and "take massive action" all day every day, right?!
RIGHT?! LET'S GO!!!!!!
No.
Momentum matters more than effort.
Try to stop a runaway tractor trailer going down a mountain. Try really hard. Splat. Momentum matters more than effort.
Try beating Tiger Woods in golf. Try beating LeBron James in basketball. In terms of effort, they play casually and you sweat blood. The pros win easily because, yes, momentum matters more than effort.
How about every person who has tried to break a bad habit and failed? Momentum matters more than effort.
Look at any area of life and you see that momentum always beats effort. And yet, curiously, it is effort that's commonly lauded and said to be the key to personal development and life. We need minimal effort to do anything, of course, but what people don't tell you is that effort has strongly diminishing returns.
Effort has a cost--energy! Thus, no, we don't need "110% effort," because that would leave us with a negative amount of energy soon thereafter. People glorify maximum, all-out effort; it's honored universally, but it's a woeful strategy for creating the greatest returns in life. And this is why:
We can generate momentum with little effort, but great effort does not always generate an equivalent amount of success or momentum.
(Copy paste from a book «The Magic of Momentum»)
RIGHT?! LET'S GO!!!!!!
No.
Momentum matters more than effort.
Try to stop a runaway tractor trailer going down a mountain. Try really hard. Splat. Momentum matters more than effort.
Try beating Tiger Woods in golf. Try beating LeBron James in basketball. In terms of effort, they play casually and you sweat blood. The pros win easily because, yes, momentum matters more than effort.
How about every person who has tried to break a bad habit and failed? Momentum matters more than effort.
Look at any area of life and you see that momentum always beats effort. And yet, curiously, it is effort that's commonly lauded and said to be the key to personal development and life. We need minimal effort to do anything, of course, but what people don't tell you is that effort has strongly diminishing returns.
Effort has a cost--energy! Thus, no, we don't need "110% effort," because that would leave us with a negative amount of energy soon thereafter. People glorify maximum, all-out effort; it's honored universally, but it's a woeful strategy for creating the greatest returns in life. And this is why:
We can generate momentum with little effort, but great effort does not always generate an equivalent amount of success or momentum.
(Copy paste from a book «The Magic of Momentum»)
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