Minimal Change Disease

For many years of my life, I was working on my goals, but was not making any meaningful progress. The progress I made was 1% better. Objectively speaking, I was not in a different place than when I started. If there was a change, it was subtle. Is there anything wrong with this? No, there is nothing wrong with this.

Is this acceptable to me? Did I want to be stuck in the place of minimal change? Or did I want to achieve the ultimate?

Did I want to experience being the best? What is it like to be a master craftsman? One who is all in. One who is at the top of the field. One who has allowed his art to transform him.

While I’m on this planet, why am I not aiming for the very top?
Why am I not pursuing the experience of the ultimate?

When I understood that my life was minimally changing, that my so-called progress was just 1% better, I had an opportunity to change. I had an opportunity to exit the state of minimal change.

In the things I wanted to accomplish, in the things that I wanted to experience, why not aim to be the best?
Success, fame, ranklists are a natural byproduct of a sincere pursuit.

The pursuit to find the truth of a matter, to learn every detail, to look under every rock, and climb atop every tree.

When one pursues a task in this way, transformation becomes possible. Change is inevitable.
In my own journey, I’ve found the change to be exponential. I’m shocked with what I could accomplish in an hour. How much I could write in a day. How quickly I could learn a new sport. Becoming a master in a year became available to me.

Why do we accept minimal change? Why are we okay with little to no progress? Why not aim for the top? Why not go all in and become the very best?