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The Slight Edge

Jeff Olson

You want a life that turns. The problem is the daily thing is too small to feel like it matters, so you skip it. Simple disciplines: easy to do, easy not to do. That is the fork. Skip them and five years from now you will not recognize the bill. Do them and five years from now you will not recognize the life.

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In one line

Simple disciplines, done daily, compound. They are easy to do and easy not to do. That is the whole training of a life.

Use this on a life. It answers: How do you get better?

The other half

Eisenhower matrix

The matrix names the important-not-urgent box. The Slight Edge is what you do in that box for years.

How this talks to the others

  • Start here, then

    JUDGE

    A 90-second rep is the daily discipline at impulse scale. The Slight Edge is that rep, repeated until a life turns.

  • Leads into

    Rapid Planning Method

    The MAP is the daily disciplines. Purpose is why you do the easy thing you could skip.

  • Leads into

    Deep work

    The important-not-urgent box is deep work, repeated until a life turns.

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