Dec
19
Can You Be 2 % Better?
Posted under Productivity
I was reading a post over at Office Freaks about how to take a miniscule figure like a 2% improvement and make things much better. Very similar to my 5 Minute Productivity Breakthrough post yesterday, the idea is you would simply make a tiny (only 2%) improvement to everything you do and in turn you would reap a ton more rewards for doing so. It’s like the saying goes "The extra mile has no stoplights." The extra 2% is easy, anyone can do it. There is so much to gain from doing it.
Brian Tracy puts a slightly different spin on being 2% better. What he says is to shoot for being 2% better this month than last, and 2% better next month than this month, and so on. These little incremental boosts in your productivity and contribution will increase and compound (like interest) into much more than the meager 2% contribution you originally made in the beginning.
This issue is particularly motivating, because who amongst us couldn’t give just 2% more? 2% is so tiny, yet could make all the proverbial differrence in the world. It’s like the difference between washing your car and washing and waxing your car. If you’re already there, already dressed and prepared to do the job - why not give that extra 2% and make your vehicle so shiny you can see your beautiful face in the reflection?!
Link: Can You Be 2 % Better?.
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Richard Hamming had a brilliant comment about this in his talk
“You and Your Research”. I have it pop up on my desktop every time I start my computer:
“”Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest.” Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity - it is very much like compound interest. I don’t want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.”
Hey, thanks for sharing, great excerpt.