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🌟 Chasing Utopia Makes You Better

LIP #187
Apr 25, 2024

You don't need to reach perfection to benefit from chasing it. Just aiming for an ideal makes you perform at a much higher level.

A famous rat experiment showed this perfectly:

  • Rats with no hope gave up after 15 minutes
  • Rats given hope swam for 60 hours - that's 240 times longer!

The only difference was hope of something better.

This applies to teams too. When people can picture a better version of their work, they give dramatically more effort every single day.

And here's a secret for top performers: the biggest gains don't come from learning something brand new. They come from doing the basics brilliantly - consistently and at an extraordinary level.

Even the best in the world can grow massively by going back to fundamentals.

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