A speaker describes the cycle of maintaining a few days of perfect habits, then spiraling after one missed day. He argues that obsessing over streaks backfires, and that what matters is your average effort over time, not whether you're flawless.
. I might have 3, 4, 5, maybe even 10 days of being consistent with something, and then wham, I found I find myself missing the mark. Now, in the past, I would have gone full self-sabotage mode. I would have beat myself up. I would tell myself all types of bad stuff about why I wasn't a capable person, and I would have just got stuck ruminating on why this is going to stop me ever getting the results I want. And then to punish myself even further, I would just get even more off track and just fail to start again at some point in the future. And this became a really vicious circle for me. It happened a lot because I was trying to be perfect. And of course, nobody is perfect and we all get off track with something that we're trying to do eventually. And that's exactly where the power of the average comes in and helps. Your results are very, very, very rarely ever dictated by a specific action, a bad day, or even a bad week.
