Brian Johnson explains kaizen, the Japanese practice of tiny constant improvements, using the All Blacks rugby team as an example. Improve 100 small things by 1% each and the compound effect creates large gains. Pick one small 1% improvement today and make it a game.
Foreign. Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another micro class. This one's on Kiwi Kaizen. It's inspired by Legacy by James Kerr. All about the All Blacks New Zealand, the Kiwis national rugby team, arguably the greatest team ever. How do they get so good? Well, James Kerr went in and studied that. One of the key attributes was Kiwi Kaizen. Kaizen, we know is basically constant and never ending improvement. Kinei is what Tony Robbins calls it. Trying to get better a little bit better day in and day out. The example James uses is imagine if you can find a hundred little things in your life. Not big things, tiny little components in your life. And you could increase each of those hundred things by 1%. Just a little, tiny, tiny gain, little improvement. Well, those marginal gains, when you aggregate them, you put them all together and then you get a little bit better day in and day out. And you do that over an extended period of time. The results are astonishing. That is an attempt at a lightning bolt. Astonishing. Compound effect of These tiny marginal gains. 100 things that you improve. 1%. You don't need to change something. 100%. 1%. Tiny little gains. Make it a game to find all these marginal gains. How can you get just a tiny bit better in your PM ritual, in your AM ritual, in your workouts, in being more consistent on your workouts. 1%. In your interaction with your family. How can you get 1% better? 100 different aspects of your life improved? 1%. Kiwi kaizen. It's huge. Think about it. What's one thing you know right now you can improve by? 1%? Just do one thing. Okay, cool. You get that? Do one more thing. 1%. Come up with it right now. Three tiny things you can improve by 1%. Go do them. And again, make it a game.
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