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Marginal Gains for Goal Achievement

This document outlines a process for marginal gains tracking to achieve goals. It involves: 1. Clearly defining your goal and breaking it down into the specific processes needed to achieve it. 2. Evaluating your current level for each process and identifying ways to learn more in order to improve. 3. Experimenting with small, 1% improvements in consistency, speed, intentionality or other aspects of each process through reflection and adjustment. The goal is to make continuous small gains that accumulate into significant progress overall through regular evaluation and refinement of processes needed to achieve outcomes.

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Marginal Gains for Goal Achievement

This document outlines a process for marginal gains tracking to achieve goals. It involves: 1. Clearly defining your goal and breaking it down into the specific processes needed to achieve it. 2. Evaluating your current level for each process and identifying ways to learn more in order to improve. 3. Experimenting with small, 1% improvements in consistency, speed, intentionality or other aspects of each process through reflection and adjustment. The goal is to make continuous small gains that accumulate into significant progress overall through regular evaluation and refinement of processes needed to achieve outcomes.

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Marginal Gains Tracking

Anchor Your Goals


What is your goal? (Recommended between 9 to 36 months)

Dissect the Goal Evaluate Your Level


What do you need to be good at to achieve 1. How good am I at this right now?
this goal? 2. How do I know I am this good?
- Be as specific as possible. 3. What condition must be true for my
evaluation of my level to be
- Focus on processes, not outcomes.
Processes lead to outcomes and are accurate?
4. What is everything I do with regards
controllable. Outcomes are
to this process? (Think of this step
symptoms of the process and we
like an instruction manual for
cannot directly control it.
someone else to do exactly what
Include goals about mental health, focus
you do - be as specific as possible)
and concentration, time management and
5. Is it possible that I am not as good
procrastination, study skills and how much
as I think I am?
you can retain given the time spent
6. If yes, what do I need to learn more
studying.
about to be certain of my level?
Find the 1%
How can you be 1% better?

- Any amount of improvement is acceptable, even if it isn’t technically 1%.


- Consider improvements relating to consistency, speed, being intentional, reflecting more
regularly or more critically, and especially learning more about what you need to do and
experimenting with new methods.
Reflection
How did your experiment go? Did you get better? If not, why – and how can you change that? If yes
– what made it easier or harder for you to succeed?

This should be completed at least once per week, and ideally at the end of every day, with
each day bringing a new 1% gain.

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