Scientific Definition
Small advantages, applied consistently, become uncatchable.
Plain-English Definition
Small advantages, applied consistently, become uncatchable.
Feynman Explanation
Boring discipline beats brilliant inconsistency. Always.
Core Principle
Small advantages, applied consistently, become uncatchable.
Mechanisms
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Talent, learning, brand, and reputation strategy.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Boring discipline beats brilliant inconsistency. Always.
Examples
- 1% better every day = 37x better in a year.
- Talent, learning, brand, and reputation strategy.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Design for consistency over heroics. Measure rate-of-improvement.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Design for consistency over heroics. Measure rate-of-improvement.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Creative work needs blocks of hours; managerial work runs on 30-minute slices. They destroy each other when mixed.
Where you can go is constrained by where you've been.
Pre-allocate every hour to a category before the day starts.
People preferentially process experience visually, auditorily, or kinesthetically. Match the channel; match the mind.
How much we value the present over the future.
How vividly we connect to our future self predicts long-term decision quality.
An automatic action triggered by a stable cue — built through repetition.
A single habit whose adoption cascades into many other behavior changes.
A present-bias kink (β) on top of exponential discounting (δ): immediate rewards get a bonus, all future rewards trade normally.
We judge probability by how similar an event is to a prototype.
H1 (managing the present) + H2 (transition mechanisms) + H3 (transformative futures) held simultaneously.
Our decisions are influenced by when events occur or when we evaluate them.