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Baby Bull, from Bo Keely

October 6, 2015 |

I'm a strong believer in the Baby Bull theory where one adds a little at a time to become big and strong. A backpack filled with a pebble more a day makes an undefeatable hiker. Few think to apply the Baby Bull to their minds.

If you wish your child to become prodigiously wise before your eyes, feed his mind daily like a baby bull throughout his childhood. The two books I recommend reading a passage at each supper sitting are Ayn Rand's Lexicon, and Louis L'Amour's Trail of Memories. Each contains hundreds of short excerpts from their works that instruct as aphorisms.

The term Baby Bull derives from a theoretical baby who is introduced to a calf, and lifts it daily. As the calf grows, so does the child.


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  1. Gurkiran on October 7, 2015 7:08 am

    Thank you Mr.Keely for your kind recommendations.
    Best regards,
    Gurkiran

  2. clayton bryan on October 7, 2015 1:20 pm

    this is precisely the way i drastically improved my diet and exercise. a tiny bit at a time. the opposite of the way most try- all at once.
    the need for instant gratification causes most to fail.

    tiny changes, which everyone can do, done daily, build new habits; and destroy bad habits that took a lifetime to create. it rewires the brain. changes the way you think. and sidesteps most of the misery normally associated with changing one’s diet/exercise

    you call it the baby bull; i call it ‘counting wins’; not focusing on failures. so if i eat junk food all day i don’t focus on all the failures. if i eat one baby carrot i tell myself ‘that is a win; no matter what else i ate today, i am a tiny bit better off than if i didn’t eat that carrot’. this helps me eat a baby carrot everyday. that builds a habit. and makes the mind realize it isn’t terrible tasting. then i start eating 2 or 3 carrots, and it builds. the more ‘wins’ (good food eaten), the less stomach space remains for the bad foods. it becomes self-reinforcing over time.

    similarly, one push up per day, for a week, easily leads to two per day, 5 per day, etc.

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