Your Greatest Successes May Come After the Plateau

Success isn’t linear

Brad Stulberg
Forge
Published in
2 min readJan 8, 2021

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Every year around this time, the same piece of motivation makes the rounds: If you want to do something new and you practice it regularly, you’ll get a little bit better each time. You may have heard of it as the “1% rule” — the idea that continuously improving by just 1% makes a dramatic difference over time.

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Brad Stulberg
Forge

Bestselling author of Master of Change and The Practice of Groundedness