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Farnam Street Minimum Effective Dose

Farnam Street Minimum Effective Dose

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Farnam Street Minimum Effective Dose §

Minimum Effective Dose

A nice principle to apply to health

If you’re trying to be the best in the world, then train your brains out But if you’re like me, and you want to get on with your life. Do other things.

Then what’s the least I can get away with, and still get the benefits.

It’s like Marginal Returns

Source: https://fs.blog/2014/02/the-minimum-effective-dose-why-less-is-more/

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