How Seeking Marginal Gains Can Lead You To Success

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, the Great British track cycling team won seven of the ten gold medals on offer at the games.

Four years later at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, they improved this haul to eight out of ten.

If you had never watched track cycling before, you would assume that Great Britain had been a world leader on the track for a number of years.

However, you would be wrong.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the track team took home just two out of the 12 gold medals on offer at the games.

The turnaround from average to brilliant in four years is nothing short of outstanding.

The success was borne from a desire to seek small continual improvements that would multiply into big ones over time.

They took the principle of improving by 1 percent every day and ran with it.

We saw the result of the success in the medal hauls at the Olympics, but what we didn’t see is the process that allowed the athletes to achieve this.

Champions are made behind closed doors. The work they put in behind the scenes is what allows them to perform on the big stage.