The Straw That Broke The Camel's Back

Controlling your subconscious

The positive messaging around compounding is everywhere. Whether it’s in investing, in business, in content creation, the message is that small positive actions repeated over time will eventually create exponential positive results. 

What we don’t hear or read about as much is the reverse. Take the saying “the straw that broke the camel’s back”- yes it was only one straw that created the catastrophic result, but actually, it was a repeated placing of straw after straw that lead to it. 

In the book The Slight Edge, the author Jeff Oslon applies this concept to our every day lives and evidences how small actions repeatedly over time will ultimately determine whether we ‘succeed’ or ‘fail’.

What’s interesting in the above graph is that the two curves - the curve of success and the curve of failure, travel side by side for a long time before suddenly veering off into opposite directions. There is no such thing as standing still. If you’re not moving up, you’re moving down. Being aware of this has made me more mindful of negative habits, negative thoughts and negative actions which if not caught early can veer us in the wrong direction.

The good news is that at every moment in life we have a choice. We can choose to change which side of the curve we are on. All we need to do is choose the actions that will empower and catch the negative habits early. Step onto the upper curve and in time we can put any area of our lives on track again.

Peace and love, Nischa out! 

My favourite things this week: 

📲Tech: A kindle. The number of books that I’ve read via my kindle has kept me going throughout my travels without going over my 20kg baggage limit

📗 Book: 48 Laws Of Power. The first time I read this was at age 21, and I hated the book- I thought it was full of lies and manipulation. I read it again and my perception couldn’t be more different. Just by reading it and not necessarily applying the laws myself, i can now recognise when someone “abides” by a law on me and how to handle it

🎙Favourite post or podcast: Neither post or podcast this week, I’m opting for a film. The new Netflix movie ‘Stutz’ - a charmingly atypical, cleverly constructed documentary that addresses the need for mental health maintenance through the open-hearted rapport between two vulnerable men. Love to see it