When Consistency Beats Efficiency

I used to be obsessed with efficiency and I spent a lot of time trying to discover techniques that would provide the greatest return on investment. The problem was that I wasn’t investing anything to begin with, meaning that no matter how efficient I was the returns always amounted to nothing.

There’s an old saying in strength training circles that hints at this idea.

The inferior workout program that you do will always beat the superior program that you don’t do.

The reason why efficiency is awesome is because you get more bang for your buck, but zero bucks stills gets you no bang whatsoever.  Efficiency for the sake of being efficient is redundant and it only becomes valuable if we’re already putting in some good old-fashioned hard work.

Get good at being disciplined and staying consistent first — efficiency will follow naturally as you discover better ways of doings the things that you keep doing.

Anyway, that’s all for now.

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