Chapter 1

Question 1

What is the aggregation of marginal gains?

Answer 1

The philosophy of searching for a tiny margin of improvement in everything you do.

Improving a tiny bit in lots of things and putting it all back together results in a large improvement.

Question 2

Habits are the compound interest of…

Answer 2

Self improvement. The impact they make on any given day seems small, but the impact they deliver over months and years is enormous.

Question 3

You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than…

Answer 3

Your current result. Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. You get what you repeat.

Question 4

Are there years that bamboo takes building root systems wasted because there is no result above the surface?

Answer 4

No because the result happens after that when they launch 90 feet into the air in 6 weeks. Your efforts are not wasted because you don’t see results yet. Heating an ice cube from 20-31° is not wasted energy.

Question 5

Forget about goals, focus on..

Answer 5

systems instead.

Question 6

You do not rise to the level of your goals.

Answer 6

You fall to the level of your systems