Probably the one great mental model for self improvement. One of the most difficult to fully grasp. I struggle with it, and only through experience have I gotten better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last night I read a great talk by Peter Kaufman on some of the great mental models. He boils them all down to consistency. You can go read that talk here but I’ve put the important parts below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most powerful force that could be potentially harnessed is dogged incremental constant progress over a very long time frame.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
…You want to win a gold medal in the Olympics. You want to learn a musical instrument. You want to learn a foreign language. You want to build Berkshire Hathaway. What\u2019s the formula? Dogged incremental constant progress over a very long time frame. Look how simple this is.\u00a0This is above genius. It\u2019s absolutely above genius because you can understand it.<\/strong>\u00a0This isn\u2019t somebody drawing all these formulas and things up here about, you know, how numbers multiply and amplify over time. The problem that human beings have is we don\u2019t like to be constant. Think of each one of those terms. Dogged incremental constant progress over a very long time frame. Nobody wants to be constant. We\u2019re the functional equivalent of Sisyphus pushing his boulder up the mountain. You push it up half way, and you go, \u2018Aw, I\u2019ll come back and do this another time.\u2019 It goes back down. \u2018I\u2019ve got this great idea, I\u2019m going to really work hard on it.\u2019 You push it up half way and,\u2019 Aw, you know I\u2019ll get back to this next month.\u2019 This is the human condition. In geometric terms this is called\u00a0variance drain<\/a>. Whenever you interrupt the constant increase above a certain level of threshold you lose compounding, you\u2019re no longer on the log curve. You fall back onto a linear curve or God forbid a step curve down.\u00a0You have to be constant.<\/strong>\u00a0How many people do you know that are constant and what they do? I know a couple. Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. Everybody wants to be rich like Warren Buffett Charlie Munger.\u00a0I\u2019m telling you how they got rich. They were constant. They were not intermittent.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
This week I’m making a better effort to build habits and consistently complete the tasks I have set out in front of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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