Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of the podcast. The reason for this is I read a quote this

week and for some reason it's just like really stuck in my head and has resonated with me quite a lot

and kind of clicked in many ways and I realized that different things resonate with different people,

but I thought that others might resonate with this too

or have opinions on it too.

So I am interested in your feedback.

And the quote was,

98% is harder than 100%.

And when I read that, I was like, damn, that is so accurate.

And my interpretation of this and why I think 98% is harder than 100% is that when you're at 98%, you're not fully committed,

which means that you are going to have to continuously make a choice to recommit.

And that's exhausting.

And in psychology, they often refer to that as decision fatigue or if you think about a finite

amount of willpower so for example you are relying on willpower to make choices again and again

and again let's use the obvious example which would be dieting this is one of the reasons I think flexible dieting can be

really quite hard to stick to because you have a choice every time you eat to eat basically

whatever you want and you have to use willpower and make a decision as to whether you want to eat something that is going

to align with your goals or something that is probably going to give you immediate gratification.

And the problem here that often occurs with dieting is that when you rely on willpower,

it leaves you open to be overwhelmed by certain situations and make choices that

in if you'd been able to have a sort of broader view of yourself, your situation and what that

action was going to do in terms of bringing you closer or further away from your goals, you might

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