Minimum Effective Dose
Do you sometimes feel like you are putting too much effort into an activity at the expense of other things you want to do?
I’m intrigued by the concept of a minimum effective dose. How much effort, and no more, does it take to get the results desired?
A couple definitions are:
“the smallest amount of a drug or other substance needed to produce a desired or specified effect” and “The M.E.D. is the smallest dose that will produce the desired outcome and anything BEYOND the M.E.D. is waste.”
When you do a google search for that term, Tim Ferris and his book The 4-Hour Body rise to the top as a current day writer who has talked about that concept as applied to physical fitness.
We know it is not a new concept. The idea of diminishing returns is well known.
It applies to many activities. Sometimes we make that article, blog post, or video too long for most people to want to take time to read or watch. We spend extra time on a project with greatly dimensioning returns. We could be doing other things.
What’s one activity you could reduce by half and still get desires results?
So, with all that in mind, I’m almost finished writing this post because I think I have met the minimum effective dose level of effort.
But first, one more paragraph:
In early 2017 I began an experiment to see if I could figure out how to set-up a blog, and write a post a week. I posted my first article one year ago today. I have not missed a week. My post goes live on my website every Sunday at 2:00 PM. I appreciate you for reading it.
