- eudured nearly one hundred years of mediocrity
- put British Cycling on a new trajectory
- the aggregation of marginal gains
- searching for a tiny margin of improvement in everything you do
- Why do small improvements accumulate into such remarkable results, and how can you replicate this approach in your own life?
- It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.
- make some earth-shattering improvement
- Habit are the compound interest of self-improvement.
- Success is the product of daily habits ── not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
- What matters is whether your habits are putting you on the path towards success.
- You get what you repeat.
- a commitment to lifelong learning can be transformative
- until you cross a critical threshold
- It's a hallmark of any compounding process: the most powerful outcomes are delayed.
- Mastery requires patience.
- Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
- summon the energy
- You treated a symptom without addressing the cause.
- A systems-first mentality provides the antidote. When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don't have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy.
- It is about the cycle of endless refinement and single continous improvement. Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.
- They are both small and mighty.
- The most powerful outcomes of any compouding process are delayed. You need to be patient.
〈Vocabulary 〉
▪ endured/enduring a.
▪ precede v.
▪ trajectory n. 方向/趨勢/走向
new career trajectory
▪ astounding a.
▪ multiply v.
▪ missteps
▪ fuel v.
▪ revert v.
revert the payment: refund or chargeback
▪ hallmark n.
▪ threshhold n. 臨界點/門檻
increase/lower/raise the threshold
exceed/reach a threshold
income/insurance/salary thresholds
〈Phrase〉
▪ on any given day
▪ slide back ; fall by the wayside