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Efficiency and excellence are contradictory goals

  • Efficiency, or achieving maximum output with minimal input, is highly valued in today's fast-paced society.
  • Greatness in any field, however, requires a significant investment of time and resources, contrasting the efficiency approach.
  • Malcolm Gladwell suggests that achieving true expertise requires around 10,000 hours of dedicated practice.
  • Tim Ferris argues that significant results can be achieved with minimal effort, suitable for general fitness and health.
  • To exceed basic fitness levels and achieve greatness, a much greater commitment is necessary, focusing on the additional 80% effort after the initial 20%.
  • Advanced training involves additional time on details such as mobility, diet precision, skill enhancement, and mental preparation.
  • The pursuit of elite performance comes with diminishing returns; small improvements, which are often crucial in competition, require disproportionate effort.
  • True excellence demands acceptance of the intensive process and a love for the journey, not just the results.
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