James Clear
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
How much money is in the bank account?
What is the number on the scale?
What is the current stock price?
What are the quarterly earnings?
There's all this measurement around our current position.
But what getting 1% better each day encourages is to focus on your trajectory instead.
Am I getting better?
Is the arrow pointed up and to the right?
Or have we flatlined?
Am I getting 1% better or 1% worse?
Because if you're on a good trajectory, all you need is time, right?
If you have good habits, time becomes your ally.
You just need to let time work for you.
But if you have bad habits, time becomes your enemy.
And every day that clicks by, you kind of dig the hole a little bit deeper.
And so it's very much at the core.
It's about encouraging you to focus on trajectory rather than position.
Yeah, yeah.
It's just math, right?
So if you get 1% better each day for a year, so 1.01 to the 365th power, then it gets 37 times better by the end of the year.