There are some situations in which a relentless hill-climbing search for marginal improvements seems to work well even without the occasional random leap. For example, the fortunes of British cycling were transformed by adopting a philosophy of ‘marginal gains’, searching for tiny improvements in training, diet and exercise. (The most glorious example: electrically heated cycling overshorts to keep the athletes warm as they waited for the starting gun.) Thanks to this approach, British cyclists won seven out of the ten gold medals available on the track at the 2012 Olympics – as well as
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Marginal Gains
continual improvements
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