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“Without the slight edge, you can start with a million and lose it all. With the slight edge, you can start with a penny and accomplish anything you want.” — Jeff Olson
In the following summary, you'll learn why most people fail to sustain improvement and how you can be the exception. Favorite Takeaway: Choosing to move slightly toward your goal in seemingly insignificant ways compounds the way a penny doubling every day does. The penny goes from one cent to four in the first three days, and just $5.12 after day 10. The results are boring for a while. But by day 30, you have a mind-boggling $5.4 million. When an aspiring author makes the tiny choice to jot down one idea, then two ideas the next day, and four the next, she eventually starts making hundreds of tiny decisions that allow her to generate an enormous number of good ideas without much discipline. Just as nothing happened for a while with the penny, and then it seemed to happen all at once, the author made little progress until it felt automatic, and writing felt effortless. Have a productive week! Nathan P.S. Today's sponsor is a useful AI newsletter with daily prompts and free AI lessons.
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