Slow and steady wins because slow and steady actually gets more done.
Do the math…s:
- Tortoise: Six 5-minute sprints (total 30 minutes) per day, 7 days a week
- versus
- Hare: 2 hours in 1 session, every 10 days or so in an increasingly painful, guilt-laden, “bulimic studying” binges.
Already that’s 210 minutes tortoise versus 120 minutes hare. Over just 1 week. Over the course of a year, it’s 10,920 minutes versus 6240 minutes. 10,920 effortless minutes that you didn’t even feel because they were in such brief, 2~5-minute sprints.
Even 10 minutes a day over the course of a year gets you 3650 minutes. 3650 effortless, “oh my GOSH, this counts?!?!?!?!!?!” minutes, versus 6240 procrastinated, forced, painful, guilt-laden ones…
As always, fake numbers to prove a real point: Big is heroic, or looks heroic. But small is victorious. Small wins. Easy wins. Small is great. Do not knock small. Do not knock easy.
Most of all small is cute ^-^
This is great life advice. I remember an older article posted about how someone applied this to their work out routine and had great success with that, too.