⏱️ The Best Minute: How to get the BEST results

Jan 16

💡 1 IDEA FROM ME

The best results often come from average effort that stays committed for an above-average amount of time.

To be great at something, especially in an age where everyone is “busy” because they are so distracted, you just need to be willing to stick with it longer than most people would.

You don’t have to read fast to read a lot of books, you just need to keep reading
You don’t have to draw the best pictures as a kid in your 3rd grade class, you just need to keep drawing when everyone else stops or moves on to something else
You don’t have to work out 2 hours a day, 5 days a week to build muscle, a couple of 45-minute sessions a week that you stick to will get (and sustain) you to build a lot of muscle

Natural talent is helpful, but anyone can improve on anything if they stick with it. Small, consistent habits that are done repeatedly, given enough time, will set you apart in anything.

You don’t have to give 110% to improve, you just have to keep showing up.

Average effort + above-average amount of time = Top 1% results

💬 2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS

I. Musonius Rufus on the importance of thinking long-term:

“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.”

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II. Niels Bohr on what it takes to be an expert:

“An expert is a person who has found out by painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.”

💯 1 THING I RECOMMEND

Lepro LED desk lamp.

This is a great desk and reading lamp. It has easily adjustable brightness settings as well as different color modes. I have two, one for my desk at home and one next to my reading chair in my bedroom. Inexpensive and easily adjustable, it is great for reading and for working.

🤯 1 INTERESTING FACT

Peppers don’t actually burn your mouth.

Hot peppers contain an alkaline, oil-based molecule called capsaicin, which sneakily triggers the temperature-sensitive pain receptors in your mouth even though the molecule itself doesn't produce heat or cause any real damage (unless you really overdo it).

This also means drinking water won’t help. Because capsaicin is oil-based, drinking water will basically just spread this molecule around your mouth — setting off even more of your pain receptors. Oops! To help cool your mouth down, skip the glass of water and try one of the options above instead.

Source: Methodist Medicine