The means by which the British Cycling Team won so many medals at the Beijing and London Olympics.
Break all practices and behaviours down to their smallest components, then seek to improve each of these by 1%, and collectively you have something better.
This kind of plan for improvement doesn’t come from our instincts but from our imaginations: what if it’s possible to ride a bike cleverer and faster than anyone else and win a medal.
Yuval Noah Harari suggests Humans do not live together in such large numbers by instinct but by imagination, through our shared myths.*
Stephen Pyne points out how the last 200 years of Human history using fire has accomplished more than two million Pleistocene years and 200 million Mesozoic years. It has led to the identifying of another geologic epoch: the Anthropocene.**
What will not be easily identifiable in this geologic strata will be our “soft” developments: compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, and more. Yet these come with our development of imaginations linking mind and heart and will – all made possible through the aggregation of marginal gains.
THIN|SILENCE 