Skip to main content

"Aggregation of Marginal Gains" strategy that blew my mind

Image
By

 Did you miss me? Wait; you don't even know me? Craaapp! Hello Dotson this is me Saurabh Aggarwal and I'm back here (once again) to have a little chitchat with you and share something valuable to add to your life. Before you start judging me that yeh kya naya batayega  let me tell you that the idea I'm sharing with you, is not new and you might already know  about it but here's my perspective to add which is quite novel (quite..)


So the thing is I was currently reading a book (ofcourse not my syllabus book) and this book  stated a "magical strategy" which could help anyone become the best version of oneself. To be honest i have heard a lot about the thing like becoming the best version of oneself and blah blah. So, at first  neurons of my brain decided not to pay much attention to this specific section  but what suddenly caught my eyes were the stats of the Olympics that a team of British cyclists which could only grab a single gold medal between 1908 - 2003 was having 66 Olympics and Paralympics gold medals in 2007 - 2017. I was curious to know what could have brought this massive change and finally my neurons were active again to adhere to this phenomenal strategy of "Aggregation of Marginal Gains". 



"Aggregation of marginal gains" in simpler words could be understood as of making tiny changes in whatever you do....(literally whatever).  I wouldn't bore you with the stats of game improving but would let you know in brief what small changes mediocre Britain made to become world cycling champion. Even though if you really want to dig in a little deeper here's the link of my vid (yahan sb hai) : https://youtu.be/nvNFH6qbjgw

  • They made the seats of bike more comfortable.
  • Provided their cyclists electrically heated clothes (to maintain their body temperature while riding).
  • Redesigned more aerodynamic suits by testing in different wind tunnels.
  • Tested various massage gel and chose the one with fastest recovery.
  • Hired a surgeon to teach them to wash hands properly..ufff(did you say teri ada?)


Some of like hundreds of changes were made and the results...ahhh better than ever expected but I'm not here to bore you with the stats but tell you that how amazing this strategy is! Ofcourse it can be used in multiple ways to enhance your progress (fir toh paisa hi paisa hoga). Success is not a once in a life-time transformation but product of your daily habits(toh chlo success ko hi habit banaye). Think how can you improve what you're currently doing by just 1%...and see the wonders happening!

By the way that's all i had to talk about today and i hope you make things work for you
(chlo kuch  reproductive krein life mn) if you made till the last of this blog then I already love you(you too? then let me know in the comment section).


Comments

  1. Anonymous29 September 2021 at 00:06

    Nice way to make things interesting by adding our local language & reaction.

    Slogan ��

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Java & Spring Interview Questions: What Really Happens Under the Hood

By
  Java & Spring Interview Questions: What Really Happens Under the Hood There is a phase in every developer's career where you can use something without actually understanding what is happening underneath. You know how to use ConcurrentHashMap . You know what @Transactional does. You know that Spring injects dependencies. You know @SpringBootApplication starts your application. And then the interviewer asks: "Okay, but what actually happens internally?" Suddenly, knowing the syntax isn't enough. That is exactly what this blog is about. I'm going to break down some of the Java and Spring concepts that are frequently asked in interviews, but more importantly, I'll try to understand why they work the way they do . Let's start with one of my favourites. 1. ConcurrentHashMap in Java 8: What Actually Happens? Let's first establish the problem. A normal HashMap is not thread-safe. Imagine two threads doing this at the same time: map.put("A",...
Post a Comment
Read more

Spring & Hibernate Interview Questions: What Really Happens Under the Hood?

By
  Spring & Hibernate Interview Questions: What Really Happens Under the Hood? After my previous blog on Java & Spring internals , one thing became pretty clear: Knowing the annotation is easy. Explaining what happens because of that annotation is where the real interview begins. You can write: @Transactional But do you know how Spring actually starts the transaction? You can add a Spring Boot dependency. But do you know why Spring suddenly creates a bunch of beans? You can modify a JPA entity without explicitly calling save() . But do you know why Hibernate still sends an UPDATE query? And here's the one I really like: Two users try to buy the last item in stock at exactly the same time. What happens? These are the kinds of questions that move an interview from "Do you know Spring?" to "Do you actually understand Spring?" So, let's go under the hood again. 🔹 Spring & Spring Boot 1. @Bean vs @Component — What's Actually Different? At firs...
1 comment
Read more

Think You Know Java? These 5 Questions Say Otherwise

By
  Hello everyone! Hope you’re sipping your coffee just right—because I’ve brewed something equally strong for your brain. Welcome to a blog that dives into 5 deceptively tricky Java interview questions —the kind that test not just what you know, but how well you understand Java under the hood. If you, like me, share a love-hate relationship with this language, this blog might just hit home. So, let's get started... Question 1: What will be the output of the following code? Why? class Parent { static void staticMethod() { System.out.println("Static method in Parent"); } private void privateMethod() { System.out.println("Private method in Parent"); } void show() { staticMethod(); privateMethod(); } } class Child extends Parent { static void staticMethod() { System.out.println("Static method in Child"); } private void privateMethod() { System.out.println("Pr...
1 comment
Read more