A speaker argues that extreme effort produces disproportionate rewards. Working ten times harder than competitors might mean the difference between gold and silver in Olympic racing, a tiny time gap with massive payoff. Beyond a certain point, effort yields exponential returns.
What's interesting is that like if you work 100 times harder, you can sometimes get like a million times the payout. And so like the top end of work still has disproportionate payoffs. And so like there are diminishing returns, but there's a point where you actually get like outsized returns for the effort because like if you think about it from like an Olympic racing perspective, like if I work, you know, 10 times more than everybody else does, but I get gold and the next guy gets silver, the difference between gold and silver in running is everything, even though it's a 10th of a second. Right. And so from an absolute perspective, there's diminishing returns. But from a relative perspective, I think you have exponential returns from being the best.
