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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

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.

Figure 1.1: Four years of that membership, one dot per month. 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.
Figure 1.1: Four years of that membership, one dot per month. 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.

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