compounding

firstly we'll talk about the power o f1% changes over time.

secondly, why we should screw goals and focus on systems instead.

thirdly, why it's all about identities rather than outcomes, finally we'll look at what our body, james, calls the fundamental laws of behaviour change.

so firstly, why does one percent matter?

well, it's all about the power of compunding. 复利效应

compounding can be amazingly powerful both positively and negatively, if we leave it to develop over period of time. 让它发展一段时间的话

if we can get one percent better each day for a year, we'll end up 37 times better by the time we're done. 一年结束时，效果就会比最初好37倍

but if we get one percent worse each day for one year, we'll go down nearly to zero.

as james says in his book, "habits are the compound interest of self-improvement." habits don't seem to make much difference on a given day, but the impact over months or years can be absolutely enormous.

we don't often think about these small changes. just because it takes so long to see the result.

this is something that i really struggle with and i think this probably applies to everyone. 这是我很纠结的，相信对大多数人也一样

we're so attuned in modern society to try and seek instant gratification.我们总是试图寻求即时满足 that it's actually really hard to focus on things that have long-term benefits.

equally, the slow rate of transformation also means that it's really easy to let bad habits creep in. 也意味着很容易让坏习惯入侵

like eating badly and not exercising. and when we repeat these one percent errors day after day, they'll accumulate into larger problems.

time magnifies the margin between success and failure, 时间会放大差距

it will multiply whatever you feed it. good habits make time your ally盟友， and bad habits make time your enemy敌人

habits often don't seem to make a difference until we cross a critical threshold. 习惯在我们跨越某个临界值之前似乎并没有什么作用

we expect progress to be linear. 我们希望进步是线性的

but the key aspect of any key compounding process is that the outcomes are delayed. 但复利过程的关键就是，结果会推迟展现出来

this leads to an initial value of disappointment. 这导致了初始值的失望 where we don't feel like we're making progress.

as the results don't follow the linear trajectory that we expect.因为结果并不像我们期望的那样是线性的

and so we just give up because we're not getting the results we wanted. 所以我们就放弃了，因为没有看到我们想要的结果

it does take time to build a habit to allow the compound interest of self-improvement to take hold.要养成一种习惯，让自我提高的复利生根发芽，确实需要时间

and give us amazing results over time.