The more in maximum isn’t actually more; it’s moderation, optimization, the peak of an upside-down-U-curve – not the tail of it.
With anything, more quickly stops scaling. More can actually start to harm the idea, the business, the culture, etc.
I’d also argue that the optimal can often feel really small…even though it isn’t.
A turnout of thirty at trivia has a slew of strong benefits even if it doesn’t feel like a lot filled the space. A teacher working with six students can have an immense impact on their lives – far more than if she were to be teaching twelve and definitely more than if she were teaching twenty.
But we either get held up on it feeling like too few (the space could hold more, the time could be divided out more, our resources can be allocated further, and so on) or we get excited by how well things are going (this is working so well that we should do more!).
It’s those attitudes that burn us and why it’s better to focus on the minimum viable product, which contrary to the name doesn’t mean the least of what we can do, the smallest or the fewest.
It means the strongest impact we can make on someone – which just happens to coincide with what we feel is a small amount
The ripple effect of a meaningful impact on a few far outweighs that of a tiny impact across the masses.
More isn’t better. Better is better.
Stay Positive & Rather Than Go For More, Create Another MVP
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