Boring Consistency #

In the 2012 London Olympics, British athletes dominated cycling, rowing, and various other sports. Their success was not due to major breakthroughs in training and preparation, but rather their unwavering commitment to Sir Dave Brailsford’s 1% rule:

Improve everything that goes into riding a bike or rowing a boat by a mere one percent, and you experience the miraculous aggregation of marginal gains.

Just as Rome wasn’t built in a day, the only way to eat an elephant (and never, ever eat an actual elephant!) is one bite at a time.

Do the right things over and over again. Consistency forms habits. Habits make hard things effortless.