{"id":17774,"date":"2025-10-15T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/?p=17774"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:03:58","slug":"whats-your-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/15\/whats-your-good-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 2 &#8211; What\u2019s Your \u201cGood Enough\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/13\/why-foundations\/\">prior lesson<\/a>, I gave a brief review of what foundations are, why they matter and how we can strengthen them.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I discussed in that lesson was that, because foundations are unavoidable, the quality of your life is determined more by your weakest foundations than your strongest. Having lots of money doesn\u2019t mean much if your relationships or health are failing you. Similarly, even with a great career and family, you can still feel awful if you aren\u2019t sleeping enough.<\/p>\n<p>A corollary of this is that, for foundations, <strong>mediocrity matters more than mastery<\/strong>. While your career or hobbies may benefit from specialization, for your foundations \u201cgood enough\u201d is more important than greatness.<\/p>\n<p>The benefits from putting more effort into a foundation aren\u2019t linear. Instead, they form a classic diminishing return curve:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Foundations-DIMINISHING-RETURNS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17778\" style=\"width:450px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Foundations-DIMINISHING-RETURNS.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Foundations-DIMINISHING-RETURNS-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Foundations-DIMINISHING-RETURNS-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>As you can see in the diagram, the benefits are steepest when going from zero to good enough, compared to going from good to spectacular.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>For some foundations, we have good data on the <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamainternalmedicine\/fullarticle\/2212267#:~:text=Results%C2%A0%20Compared%20with%20individuals%20reporting,harm%20at%2010%20or%20more\">shape of this curve<\/a>. One major benefit of regular exercise is that it reduces your chance of dying prematurely. Going from zero to 75 minutes of exercise each week, half of the standard recommendation of 150 minutes, reduces that chance by 20%. In contrast, getting 150 to 300 minutes of exercise each week only results in an extra 10% reduction (a 30% reduction in total), and there are basically no additional benefits by this measure to exercising more than five times the standard amount, which would be 12.5 hours of weekly exercise, or nearly two hours daily.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, <strong>if you care about your health, getting *some* exercise relatively consistently is much more important than crushing your personal bests at the gym<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But another thing you\u2019ll notice is that the shape of the curve is smooth. It\u2019s not as if meeting the guidelines is the \u201ccorrect\u201d amount. You could, if you were so inclined, do about three times the recommended amount and still see additional benefits. Alternatively, you could take the opposite approach and do half as much as recommended, and you\u2019d still be getting 2\/3rds of the benefits as someone who followed the guidelines exactly.<span id='easy-footnote-1-17774' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/15\/whats-your-good-enough\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-17774' title='Interestingly enough, when you ask people whether they\u2019re meeting recommended guidelines, a majority of adults say they are. However, when activity was actually tracked, &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.ajpmonline.org\/article\/S0749-3797(11)00012-2\/abstract&quot;&gt;fewer than 10% met the guideline&lt;\/a&gt;. We often deceive ourselves as to how strong our foundations actually are.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Given this, how much is actually \u201cgood enough\u201d?<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Feeling Out Your \u201cGood Enough\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Trade-offs exist, so figuring out what\u2019s \u201cgood enough\u201d for you is an important part of the puzzle of living well.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, there\u2019s the obvious: <strong>different people have different costs for different foundations<\/strong>. An able-bodied twenty-year-old may have no difficulty fitting in two-hour workouts every day, but a busy working parent might struggle to find fifteen minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Second, even within one person\u2019s life, <strong>we need to consider the trade-off between different foundations<\/strong>. Should you exercise more if it means waking up early and losing some sleep? Should you spend the evening reading a book or socializing with friends? Should you save your money or spend it on a family vacation?<\/p>\n<p>If we were the kind of mathematically-inclined robots imagined by economists, we could solve this problem simply by continuing to invest more into a practice until the incremental benefits of the behavior equaled its incremental costs. So, starting with zero exercise, you\u2019d keep adding five minutes a day until the added five minutes gave you fewer benefits than they cost you.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Foundations-MARGINAL-BENEFITS-COSTS-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17779\" style=\"width:450px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Foundations-MARGINAL-BENEFITS-COSTS-.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Foundations-MARGINAL-BENEFITS-COSTS--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Foundations-MARGINAL-BENEFITS-COSTS--768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In practice, however, the actual shape of this curve is not always known. Even for well-studied subjects like fitness, we have good data on mortality, but it\u2019s harder to account for subjective benefits like improved mood and energy. Even if we did know them, the costs themselves are also subjective\u2014how much do you value an extra five minutes of sleeping in, or an extra five minutes spent with your kids?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instead, we have to weigh these tradeoffs more by feel than by numbers<\/strong>. The \u201cgood enough\u201d threshold for a foundation for you is the point where you feel like any more wouldn\u2019t be worth it, compared to what you\u2019d have to give up elsewhere in your life.<\/p>\n<p>While feeling things out is inexact, it\u2019s not impossible. There are even some good arguments that something like the algorithm these imaginary, mathematically-inclined robots run is actually used by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/02\/motivation\/#03\">parts of the brain<\/a> when making choices.<span id='easy-footnote-2-17774' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/15\/whats-your-good-enough\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-17774' title='Of course, our neural circuitry can\u2019t easily consider long-range benefits, which is why foundations whose benefits are largely in the future are often neglected.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Instead, the problem we run into isn\u2019t subjectivity, but the fact that costs aren\u2019t constant.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leveling Up Your \u201cGood Enough\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Exercise is a perfect example here. While many people make a big deal of not having enough time to exercise, time alone is not a good explanation for why we don\u2019t move enough. As many <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC12496190\/\">time-use surveys show<\/a>, we spend enough time on television, podcasts or other activities that\u2014even for quite busy people\u2014thirty minutes a day can usually be found.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the reason we don\u2019t exercise is simpler: exercising is hard and unpleasant, particularly when you\u2019re out of shape. In other words, it\u2019s not the time that prevents us from doing it, but the fact that exercising seems to require so much willpower and energy. At the end of an exhausting day, we\u2019d rather just relax.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you exercise more, it becomes more enjoyable. Your body is in better shape, so you feel better about exercising. You regularly assign time for it, so there are fewer ad-hoc difficulties with scheduling. You may even get involved in a sport or social activity that makes exercise more than just moving your muscles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Foundations-EFFORT-VS-HABIT-STRENGTH-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17780\" style=\"width:450px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Foundations-EFFORT-VS-HABIT-STRENGTH-.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Foundations-EFFORT-VS-HABIT-STRENGTH--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Foundations-EFFORT-VS-HABIT-STRENGTH--768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>I think this explains why, despite the truth that weaker foundations impact our lives more, we often get stuck making minor tweaks to our strongest ones. The costs of investing more go down as we gain more confidence and experience, so we\u2019re more inclined to make these easier investments, even if they result in smaller and smaller benefits.<\/p>\n<p>This is also an argument for committing yourself to some mandatory maintenance for all of your foundations, even the ones you normally avoid. Because if you can lower their ongoing costs, you might find that you\u2019re able reach a much higher level without a lot of extra pain and effort.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s Your \u201cGood Enough\u201d?<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019m curious about where you draw the line for \u201cgood enough\u201d across foundations in your own life. What is one foundation where you\u2019ve maintained a high standard for a long time? What is one where you feel like you\u2019ve had a hard time reaching the minimum? Comment below and let me know!<\/p>\n<p>_ _ _<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, I\u2019ll be announcing the next session of <a href=\"https:\/\/join.ingeniumcourses.com\/foundations\/\">Foundations<\/a> and giving an overview of the twelve-month curriculum, including what I recommend for capturing the lion\u2019s share of the benefits from each foundation in your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the prior lesson, I gave a brief review of what foundations are, why they matter and how we can strengthen them. One of the things I discussed in that lesson was that, because foundations are unavoidable, the quality of your life is determined more by your weakest foundations than your strongest. 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