The Difference of Just A Little More Effort :: Training Principle – The 1.01 Law

Ref: 

http://taiwanrocks.net/training-principle-the-1-01-law/

http://www.chinasmack.com/2014/stories/peoples-daily-the-difference-of-just-a-little-more-effort.html

The people who work just a bit harder than you have actually already flung you far away [are actually already far ahead of you]! Good morning!

A rough translation of the plaque reads

The law of 1.01 :  1.01365= 37.8 The law of 0.99: 0.99365 =0.03

In layman’s terms:

• When we eek out 1% more effort every day, our abilities can grow almost 38 times over the course of a year.
• When we slack off 1% every day, our abilities diminish greatly over the course of a year. (to 0.03 of our original ability)

Is this principle literally true? Probably not.  You are not going to be climbing 38 times harder from spending 1% more time training everyday, and you’re not going to be a weakling a year later if you slack off 1% of the time.

However the general principle holds — pushing yourself just that 1% more beyond your previous limit every day,  can have a huge exponential effect over time — and the reverse holds if you slack off!