Don't Be Fooled By The Maths

Don't Be Fooled By The Maths

Isn’t it amazing how the smallest tweak can give rise to an outlandishly different outcome?

Mathematically at least that’s true. SEE THIS PHOTO.

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A one percent difference every day gets you 37 times more of what you had than no change at all.

Obviously that’s a positive change.

?A 1% decline every day for a year gets you to 0.03. A 97% reduction.

That’s the maths at least.

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It all gets messy when you add in human nature.

What might feel like an improvement to one person might feel like a loss to another. What feels like an improvement might actually be a loss. And vice versa.

There is just no way of knowing until we can look back over time.

What we can pay attention to is how the change we thinking about feels.

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My experience is that good changes always feel light and easy and quiet. Whereas bad changes are invariably heavy and stressful and loud.

To make things trickier our minds (read egos) often try and fool us and convince us good changes are bad and vice versa.

Again, my experience is that ego rarely manages to tick all three light/easy/quiet or heavy/stressful/loud boxes.

And so that’s what I pay attention to – not the thought but the feeling of the thought.

If all three light/easy/quiet boxes are not ticked, and do not remain ticked for several days, I’m not moving a muscle.

Gabrielle Van der Velde

Currently taking a break! Surgery and recovery for a new knee

2 年

oh those feelings that are generated by a thought being couched in past memories - you can never predict those outcomes! - it can turn a successful conversation on its head! - love the part of financial coaching in advice - but at the same time recognise that we cannot be CBT specialists or trauma counsellors. It is definitely an art to tweak those conversations!

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