Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

SMALL DIFFERENCES 
LEAD TO BIG RESULTS
Often small improvements in the way you think and perform can
lead to significant improvements in your performance. It is not nec-
essary for you to attend university and get years of education to
bring your knowledge up to the level where it can pay off for you.
Sometimes very small changes in what you are doing right now,
right where you are, can bring about amazing results.
Here’s an example. If a horse runs in a horse race and wins by a
nose, it earns 10 times the prize money of a horse that comes in sec-
ond. Does this mean that the horse that comes in first is 10 times
faster? Is it twice as fast? Ten percent faster? No, the horse that wins
is only a 
nose
faster.
By the same token, your possession of one small piece of infor-
mation at the right time and in the right place can enable you to
make an extraordinary difference in a particular situation. Often a
single idea or insight can change your whole life or career.
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