Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

Lower Your Cost to Act

Daily Chase #254

May 12, 2026
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We like to think the gap between knowing and doing is a willpower problem. It’s often not, at least not as much as it’s a friction problem.

There’s a concept in behavioral economics called “lowering your cost to act.” We first heard it from Dr. Jordan Metzl. The idea is simple: the harder something is to start, the less li…

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