I have got this quote while reading the book “Grit” by Angela Duckworth. The quote goes as: Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together in a synthesized whole. There is nothing extraordinary or superhuman in those actions; only the fact that they are done consistently and correctly, and all together produce excellence....
Jevons Paradox implies that in the long term, an increase in efficiency in the resource usage will generate an increase in resource consumption rather than a decrease 1. Jevons Paradox is a term conceived in economics by English economist William Stanley Jevons in his 1865 book “The Coal Question”. Jevons observed that England’s coal consumption increased after James Watt introduced new efficient steam engine, though by all means the coal consumption should have decreased as a result of higher efficiency of coal powered engines 2....