Name: 普通人到底如何變強？► 你只需要持續這樣做… 聽聽《原子習慣》作者的親自解說 - James Clear 詹姆斯‧克利爾（中英字幕）
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The zero and first conditional

If you have good habits, time becomes your ally.

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.

I like to use that story as an introduction to this idea of making these 1% improvements for a couple reasons.

The first is, excellence, a lot of the time, maybe we can even say most of the time, is not actually about radical change.

It's about a commitment to accruing small improvements day in and day out.

Secondly, it encourages you to focus on trajectory rather than position.

There's a lot of discussion about position in life.

There's all this measurement around our current position.

But what getting 1% better each day encourages is to focus on your trajectory instead.

Is the arrow pointed up and to the right?

Because if you're on a good trajectory, all you need is time.

And so it's very much at the core, it's about encouraging you to focus on trajectory rather than position.

If you get 1% better each day for a year, 1.01 to the 365th hour, then you get 37 times better by the end of the year.

If you get 1% worse, .99 to the 365th hour, then you drive yourself almost all the way down to zero.

You know, look, real life is not exactly like a mathematical equation, right?

Your habits are not exactly like just formula.

But I do think that it highlights an important concept, which is the difference between making a choice that's 1% better or 1% worse on any given day is relatively insignificant.

And this is, I think, one of the things that makes it underappreciated or underestimated.

You're like, what is the difference between eating a burger and fries for lunch today or eating a salad?

Or going to the gym for 30 minutes or not?

You know, your body looks the same in the mirror at the end of the night.

It's only two or five or 10 years later that you turn around and you're like, oh, you know, those daily choices really do add up.

And I think you see this pattern again and again throughout life.

Look, reading for 10 minutes a day does not make you a genius, right?

But the person who always does that over five or 10 or 20 years, yeah, really meaningful difference in wisdom and insight.

Doing one extra thing does not make you an all-star.

But again, over a 10 or 20 or 30-year career, that can be a really meaningful difference in output.

So this pattern shows up again and again.

What starts out small and relatively easy to dismiss compounds or turns into something much more significant over time.