1% Better Each Day

Last week, as I read the first two chapters of James Clear's "Atomic Habits" again, I was reminded of hoe James compares habits to compound interest.

He explains that just like interest grows over time, habits build up can lead to big changes -

"Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effect of your habits multiply as you repeat them.

They seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous. It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps 10 years later that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones become strikingly apparent."

James Clear then shared an idea and a graph that have become very popular in the self-help world -

He says that "If you get just 1% better each day, you'll be almost 37 times better after one year."