The +1 Method · chapter 1: Paying for a Gym I Never Went To
Four years of that membership, one dot per month
2026-08-27
On the left, the months I paid: all of them. On the right, the months I set foot inside even once: a handful, and they clustered after the New Year. Reconstructed from memory, so read the shape rather than the exact count.
Below: the paragraph from the book that builds this idea, then the diagram itself (Figure 1.1), and a recap. About a minute of reading.
I did the arithmetic once, late, on the sort of evening where you decide to be honest with yourself for twenty minutes. Years of membership, and I have drawn four of them here. Every payment made, not one of them missed, not one of them late. And then the other column: the months in which I actually walked through the door, even once. Figure 1.1 is that comparison. I have drawn it from memory rather than from records, so treat the exact dots as approximate and the shape as exact.
Recap
- The idea: On the left, the months I paid: all of them.
- The picture: Figure 1.1, from chapter 1 ("Paying for a Gym I Never Went To") of The +1 Method.
- Go deeper: the chapter builds this step by step, with recipes and sources at the end.
This diagram is one of many in The +1 Method.
Every chapter opens with the gist, draws the hard ideas, and ends with recipes and sources.
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