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How to Achieve Double the Results with Half the Effort — No, Seriously, It Works

Forget the hustle culture — it’s all about strategic consistency and showing up. Working less may just be the key to your success.

Shaant
3 min readFeb 4, 2025
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Have you ever felt like you were trapped on a hamster wheel, always striving yet apparently getting nowhere? I know I did. I was stuck in the “more is better” mindset, certain that hard work and grinding were the only methods to succeed.

But then I learned something counterintuitive: sometimes twice your efforts yields half the returns. It is not laziness; it is strategic consistency, not obsessive perfectionism, that will keep you going.

This trip has altered the way I approach my goals, and I’m delighted to share it with you.

Why Perfection Is Just You Stalling

The main reason I was unable to maintain consistency was my fixation on doing things “right.” I would be paralyzed by my dread of being flawed, scrutinizing, second-guessing, and overanalyzing everything I did.

Like many others, I forgot to merely start a task because I was so preoccupied with doing it perfectly. This quest for excellence turned into a barrier that ruined my consistency…

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Shaant
Shaant

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