Why Toyota might be the best car, car company, and also why Fujifilm, the up and comer, might be the best camera company:
Kaizen?
The general idea is that with kaizen, a steady 1% improvement, every single day, or every single generation, compounded across many years in decades or maybe even centuries, results in some thing insanely great. The reason why this is a good idea is that because, it’s sort of follows normal biological power laws.
For example, a child doesn’t grow to be 6 foot tall overnight. It takes many years, maybe 16 to 20 years of steady daily growth.
I have also applied this methodology to weightlifting, specifically insanely heavy one rep max lifting. The general just as whenever I attempt a given lift, I always try to increase the weight by at least 1%. Or generally speaking, maybe once a week, or twice a week, I tried to add 2.5 pounders to each side of the barbell. This has resulted in me atlas lifting over 970 pounds. For reference, that is 10 plates, and an additional five pounder and 2.5 pounder attached on the side via ERIC KIM CLIP.
The general idea is that greatness doesn’t happen overnight, it is a piecemeal process, which happens step-by-step. Therefore the general encouragement and idea is this; take things one step at a time, and focus on growth, expansion, and augmenting or strength as a progressive process. “Progressive overload” theory as a pretty ok theory.