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The Slight Edge

Jeff Olson

Olson's claim is that the actions determining long-term outcomes are almost always easy to do, and just as easy not to do, which is why most people skip them: no single instance feels consequential. The slight edge is the compounding gap between doing the easy right thing consistently and not doing it. Book 3's Chapter 6 draws on this for why a single missed day feels harmless in the moment and is anything but.