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The Diminishing Returns Curve
Diminishing returns means that the more you experience something, the less rewarding it becomes. The concept of diminishing returns applies to most experiences that are complex and novel, and even many of the mundane ones. They apply in cases like money, eating, sleeping, work productivity and even friendships.
All give back less the more you do them, the more you try, or the more you have. All operate on a diminishing returns curve.
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Assumption Of A Linear Curve
Most people assume the relationship between effort and reward is one-to-one. We think that working twice as long will produce twice the results. That caring about a relationship twice as much will make everyone feels twice as loved.
However, most of the world does not exist on a linear cur...
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Why Does This Happen?
These internal, psychological experiences exist on an inverted curve because they are both the cause and the effect of the same thing: our minds. When you desire happiness, your mind is simultaneously the thing that is desiring and the target of its own desires.
The goal is to tak...
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"The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed. Proficiency and results come only to those who have learned the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, or combining relaxation with activity."
ALDOUS HUXLEY
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Where Does The Inverted Curve Apply?
- Control- The more we accept our feelings and impulses instead of controlling them, the more we’re able to direct and process them.
- Freedom- It’s only by limiting ourselves–by choosing and committing to certain things in life–that we truly exercise ou...
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The Inverted Curve
Here, effort and reward have a negative correlation—that is, the more effort you put into doing something, the more you will fail to do it.
Effort and reward have a linear relationship when the action is mindless and simple. Effort and reward have a diminishing returns relationship when th...
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How Do We Stop Chasing Things?
By letting go, by giving up and by surrendering. Not out of weakness. But out of a respect that the world is beyond our grasp. By recognizing that we are fragile and limited and but temporary specks in the infinite reaches of time. You do it by relinquishing control, not because ...
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