A popular psychological strategy is to set small goals or start slowly. Despite several small goals, this strategy often fails with a lack of meaningful progress . There are good reasons.S-curve or logic functions are useful models for understanding why this strategy rarely brings the expected results
S-Curve
DW is friendly and can draw this Sigmoid for me. Imagine you sitting at the bottom left, some aspect of your life.The bottom left is the situation of a budget disaster poor physical condition, incompetent in society, no productivity at work, no education, etc. The ultimate goal is to sit on the upper right.The upper right is the situation of wealth
at its best, popular, super productive, know everything, and more. Choose one.It brings a lot of patience, but this kind of patience is often difficult to achieve.
The productivity improvement is proportional to the current productivity (low on the left) and is proportional to the potential for further productivity (very high at the moment)
This is the geek's equation Logical functionsWhat it says is that with very few resources, the ability to change will be proportional to the resources. It's like complex interests.Complex interests themselves never make anyone rich. Invest 1 dollar at 8% and wait 30 years and get $10. It's nothing. But 8% invested $100,000 over the 30-year period and received $1,000,000. That's real money. So it is very important to get anywhere and build resources as quickly as possible. Setting small goals in this case is a way of guaranteeing that results will not be seen soon. Rather, putting in a huge effort is a guaranteed way to see immediate and growing returns.
Once the foundation is established, the motivation should automatically appear . In the middle of the curve, there is a linear relationship between efforts and results. Work more and get more results. Less work and fewer results. In other words, this is the stage of giving more rewards than at the beginning. It is best to get to this stage as fast as possible, as starting too slowly will cause people to give up more often.
Through further efforts, the ceiling of productivity begins to start due to restrictions In resources, clients, responsibilities, market size, etc., you may have found that your job description can be completed in 3 hours, even if you have to work 8 nominally. In this case, you know what I mean for reaching the upper limit of productivity. In this case, if the gains are only 5%, it doesn't make sense to increase the work effort by 25%. In this case, it is better to start another project or look for more responsibilities.That's it.
Almost all careers work like the S curve from bottom left to top right
. It is very important to embed this curve into your mind because it includes the idea of compound growth and the law of diminishing returns. Understanding this curve shows that by setting small goals to start with pure scale, it doesn’t make much achievements. There will most likely be halfway through weeks and the project will be abandoned as it doesn't seem to make any difference. Instead, put in a lot of effort at the beginning and keep moving forward until the return is linear (middle). As long as you see linear growth, you can keep moving forward. When this growth starts to gradually decrease, it is time to set different (not big) goals instead of keeping few returns.
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