{"id":21771,"date":"2025-10-29T05:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportman.fi\/?p=21771"},"modified":"2025-10-29T05:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:37:34","slug":"marginal-gains-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportman.fi\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/marginal-gains-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Marginal gains (En)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The <strong>concept of 1% improvement<\/strong>, often called <strong>&#8220;the 1% rule&#8221;<\/strong> or <strong>&#8220;marginal gains&#8221;<\/strong>, is the idea that making <strong>tiny, consistent improvements<\/strong> \u2014 about <strong>1% better each day<\/strong> \u2014 can lead to <strong>significant long-term progress<\/strong> because of <strong>compound growth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s how it works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Core Idea<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of trying to make big, dramatic changes all at once, focus on <strong>small, manageable improvements<\/strong> in your habits, processes, or skills. Over time, these small improvements <strong>accumulate<\/strong> and multiply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mathematically:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you get 1% better every day for a year:<br>1.01365\u224837.781.01^{365} \\approx 37.781.01365\u224837.78 \u2192 You\u2019ll be <strong>37 times better<\/strong> after one year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you get 1% worse every day for a year:<br>0.99365\u22480.030.99^{365} \\approx 0.030.99365\u22480.03 \u2192 You\u2019ll almost lose all your progress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Example in Practice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Personal growth:<\/strong> Reading 1 page a day becomes 30 books in a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fitness:<\/strong> Adding 1% more effort to your workouts improves strength and endurance steadily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Business:<\/strong> Improving small processes (like response time, product quality, or communication) adds up to big competitive advantages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea was popularized by <strong>Sir Dave Brailsford<\/strong>, coach of the British Cycling team, who applied the philosophy of <strong>\u201caggregation of marginal gains\u201d<\/strong> \u2014 improving every small aspect (sleep, diet, bike design, etc.) by 1%. The team went from mediocrity to dominating world cycling within a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTiny changes. Remarkable results.\u201d \u2014 <em>James Clear, Atomic Habits<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Idea: Jukka, Text:AI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The concept of 1% improvement, often called &#8220;the 1% rule&#8221; or &#8220;marginal gains&#8221;, is the idea that making tiny, consistent improvements \u2014 about 1% better each day \u2014 can lead to significant long-term progress because of compound growth. Here\u2019s how it works: The Core Idea Instead of trying to make big, dramatic changes all at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportman.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportman.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportman.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportman.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportman.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportman.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21772,"href":"https:\/\/sportman.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21771\/revisions\/21772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportman.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportman.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportman.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}