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3 Lessons On Improvement
- Doing a light amount of work is a great way to reduce the pain of difficult sessions.
- The amount of work that you need to do to reach your maximum level of output is higher than what you are doing now.
- Deliberate practice is critical to long-term success. Doing the same type of work over and over again is a strange form of laziness.
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Doing the same thing
... over and over again, even if it worked for a long time, will eventually lead to a plateau.
If nothing changes, nothing is going to change.
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Examples Of The Repeated Bout Effect
- When you haven't done much strength training, doing 30 pushups will make you stronger. But after a few months, an extra of 30 pushups isn't really building new muscle.
- When you drink coffee for the first time, you notice an immediate caffeine spike. But after years of consumption, on...
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The Repeated Bout Effect
The more you repeat a behavior, the less it impacts you because you become accustomed to it.
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