[peterhalburt33]

To your point, how can one measure 1% improvement in a meaningful way for abstract activities (e.g., learning)? The premise is that 1% improvement each day will yield large gains through the power of compounding, but if you aren’t sure you are making a quantified 1% improvement over your previous improved state things go awry quickly: if you only make 1% improvement over your original state each day then by the end of the year you have only improved by a factor of 4.65x, rather than your projected 37.8x improvement. Point being, if you want to take advantage of the sensitivity and power of exponential growth, you better be sure that you have a good way of quantifying your growth.

I know this is probably meant to be more inspirational than quantifiable, but then why even insert numbers unless to mislead people about the amount of effort it takes to improve? Either way you have to put in the same amount of effort to achieve the improvement, whether you break it up into 1% chunks or not there’s no free lunch.