What is *The Gap and The Gain* by Dan Sullivan about?

*The Gap and The Gain* teaches a mindset shift for high achievers: Instead of measuring progress against an idealized future ("The Gap"), focus on accomplishments relative to your past self ("The Gain"). This approach fosters gratitude, confidence, and motivation by reframing success as incremental growth. The book combines psychology and practical tools to help readers break cycles of dissatisfaction.

Who should read *The Gap and The Gain*?

Entrepreneurs, professionals, and ambitious individuals who struggle with feeling unfulfilled despite their achievements will benefit most. The book provides actionable strategies for overcoming perfectionism, improving relationships, and enhancing well-being through its Gain-focused framework. It’s also valuable for coaches and leaders seeking to foster resilience in teams.

Is *The Gap and The Gain* worth reading?

Yes—the book distills Dan Sullivan’s decades of coaching high performers into a simple yet transformative concept. Readers gain tools to reframe setbacks, build self-awareness, and cultivate gratitude. Its blend of psychological insights and real-world applications makes it a standout in personal development literature.

What is the "Gap vs. Gain" mindset?

The "Gap" measures success against an unreachable ideal, causing dissatisfaction, while the "Gain" measures progress against past achievements, fostering fulfillment. For example, instead of fixating on unmet revenue goals (Gap), celebrate surpassing last year’s results (Gain). This shift improves decision-making and emotional resilience.

How does *The Gap and The Gain* improve relationships?

By focusing on others’ progress rather than idealized expectations, the book reduces conflict and builds empathy. For instance, appreciating a partner’s efforts (even if imperfect) strengthens bonds. Daily practices like acknowledging others’ Gains promote positivity and collaboration.

What role does gratitude play in *The Gap and The Gain*?

Gratitude anchors the Gain mindset by highlighting past wins. Writing daily accomplishments (e.g., "Closed a client deal") shifts focus from what’s missing to what’s achieved. This habit reduces stress and aligns actions with meaningful progress.

Can *The Gap and The Gain* help with career growth?

Absolutely—the framework encourages professionals to track skill development, promotions, or mentorship milestones. For example, comparing current leadership abilities to those from five years ago clarifies growth, boosting confidence during negotiations or pivots.

What are key quotes from *The Gap and The Gain*?

- **“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to measure progress.”** - **“Successful people compare themselves to who they were, not who they think they should be.”** These emphasize self-compassion and redefining success metrics.

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Descubre por qué las personas de alto rendimiento se sienten insatisfechas a pesar del éxito. "The Gap and The Gain" revela el cambio psicológico que transformó la mentalidad de innumerables emprendedores. ¿Y si medir hacia atrás, no hacia adelante, es la clave de la felicidad? El concepto de Dan Sullivan se ha convertido en una revolución de la psicología empresarial.

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Capítulo 1

The Pursuit of Happiness is a Trap

Have you ever wondered why, despite achieving your goals, you still feel dissatisfied? Thomas Jefferson's phrase "the pursuit of Happiness" in the Declaration of Independence has fundamentally shaped American psychology by framing happiness as perpetually out of reach. This mindset keeps most people trapped in what Dan Sullivan calls "the GAP" - constantly measuring themselves against ideals rather than appreciating progress. Sullivan's book "The GAP and the GAIN," co-authored with organizational psychologist Benjamin Hardy, has become essential reading for entrepreneurs and leaders worldwide. Endorsed by business titans like Michael Hyatt and Joe Polish, this transformative concept has helped thousands of high-achievers escape the trap of perpetual dissatisfaction. The book's central premise resonates deeply with anyone who has ever achieved a goal only to immediately focus on the next horizon without celebrating their success.

Capítulo 2

The GAP: Why Achievement Never Feels Enough

The GAP is the space between where you are and your ideal. When you measure yourself against an ideal-whether it's a perfect body, a certain income level, or an idealized version of success-you're guaranteed to feel inadequate because ideals, by definition, are unreachable. They're like horizons that continuously recede as you approach them. This mindset is particularly prevalent among high achievers. CEOs are twice as likely to experience depression than the general public, and entrepreneurs have higher rates of substance abuse and mental health challenges despite their external success. Why? Because they're perpetually in the GAP, focusing on what they haven't accomplished rather than what they have. Consider Edward, one of Sullivan's clients who had accumulated $17 million but never felt financially secure. His original goal was $5 million-a figure he once thought would represent extraordinary success. Yet after exceeding that goal more than three times over, he still felt inadequate. This is the GAP in action: no matter how far you've come, you're always measuring against an ever-receding ideal. Psychology calls this phenomenon "hedonic adaptation" or "the hedonic treadmill"-our tendency to quickly adapt to achievements and return to baseline happiness. You work harder and harder to feel fulfilled while remaining exactly where you started emotionally. This pattern creates a toxic cycle where happiness always seems to be waiting just beyond the next achievement. When you're in the GAP, you lose what you have. Every experience becomes negative, progress feels like a letdown, and you become tyrannical toward others' shortcomings. Your focus on what's missing blinds you to the abundance already present in your life.

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Capítulo 3

The GAIN: Measuring Backward to Move Forward

The alternative to living in the GAP is measuring yourself against where you started-what Sullivan calls "the GAIN." This transformative approach fundamentally shifts how we evaluate progress and success. Instead of focusing on how far you still have to go, you measure how far you've come, acknowledging every step of progress along your journey. If you begin at 1 and aim for 30 but reach 22, you're not 8 short-you're 21 ahead. This perspective shift creates immediate psychological benefits by connecting you to your actual achievements rather than perceived shortfalls. It's like climbing a mountain - while the summit might still be ahead, looking back at the distance covered provides tangible evidence of progress and builds momentum for the continuing journey. The GAIN mindset transforms every experience, whether positive or negative, into a valuable learning opportunity. Even painful experiences become stepping stones when you extract meaningful lessons from them. For instance, a failed business venture might teach crucial lessons about market research, timing, or operational efficiency. This approach makes you psychologically bulletproof-traumatic experiences remain traumatic only until you reframe them as valuable lessons that contribute to your growth and wisdom. Dan Jansen, the Olympic speed skater, exemplifies this principle perfectly. After heart-wrenching Olympic disappointments, including falling during the 1988 Olympics shortly after his sister's death, Jansen made a crucial shift from GAP to GAIN thinking. Rather than dwelling on races he should have won, he began appreciating his journey, including setting world records and maintaining world-class performance over multiple Olympics. This shift in perspective boosted his confidence and deepened his focus, culminating in his memorable gold medal victory in 1994. Most significantly, Jansen discovered that true success wasn't just about winning - he had already become successful through his persistence, resilience, and growth mindset before his final Olympic race. The GAIN mindset creates a powerful virtuous cycle that extends beyond sports into every area of life. When you focus on progress, you experience positive emotions that facilitate higher performance. This increased performance builds genuine confidence, which in turn generates more positive emotions and better results. Psychological research consistently confirms that authentic confidence emerges from recognizing past successes rather than from artificial positive thinking. By focusing on your GAINS - whether in relationships, career advancement, personal development, or skill mastery - you create an upward spiral of achievement and satisfaction. This approach is particularly powerful in long-term endeavors where progress can feel slow. Whether you're learning a new language, building a business, or developing a new skill, regularly acknowledging how far you've come provides the emotional fuel needed to persist through challenges and setbacks. The GAIN mindset transforms the journey itself into a source of satisfaction, rather than perpetually postponing happiness until reaching some future goal.

Capítulo 4

Embrace the Freedom of 'Wants' Over the Attachment of 'Needs'

When you're in the GAP, your happiness becomes fundamentally tied to external factors - you believe you need specific achievements, material possessions, others' approval, career advancement, or certain physical attributes to feel complete. These perceived "needs" often mask deeper, unresolved internal pain or insecurity that cannot be remedied through external accomplishments or validation. True contentment emerges from the profound realization that you are inherently enough, that you possess sufficient resources for your journey, and that your personal evaluation of your experiences carries more weight than others' opinions or societal expectations. Psychologists have extensively researched and identified two distinct types of passion that drive human behavior: obsessive and harmonious. Obsessive passion originates from a desperate need for external validation - you perform tasks, pursue goals, or develop skills primarily to prove your worth to others or meet societal standards. This type of passion often leads to burnout, anxiety, and decreased performance. In contrast, harmonious passion flows from genuine intrinsic motivation - you engage in activities because they bring you joy, align with your values, and contribute to your personal growth, regardless of external recognition. Trevor Lawrence, the NFL quarterback, serves as a compelling example of harmonious passion in action. His approach to football demonstrates a pure love for the game that transcends external pressures and expectations. Despite being a first-overall draft pick with immense pressure to perform, he maintains his effectiveness by focusing on his personal standards of excellence without becoming unhealthily attached to outcomes. This balanced approach allows him to fully commit to his craft while maintaining emotional equilibrium, regardless of wins or losses. This dynamic creates a paradoxical truth: when you release the desperate need for specific outcomes, you actually enhance your ability to achieve them. Without the burden of "needing" success, you can perform more freely and naturally, often entering flow states that optimize performance. Olympic speed skater Dan Jansen's story perfectly illustrates this principle - he finally secured his elusive gold medal only after releasing his death grip on the need to win and began appreciating his journey and progress. The renowned philosopher Erich Fromm's distinction between "freedom from" and "freedom to" provides a valuable framework for understanding this transformation. "Freedom from" represents liberation from external constraints, pressures, and limitations, while "freedom to" embodies the internal capability to choose and create. When trapped in the GAP mentality, you're primarily focused on achieving "freedom from" - trying to escape feelings of inadequacy or external pressures. The GAIN mindset, however, offers a more complete form of freedom - first by liberating you FROM the constraining GAP mentality, then empowering you with the "freedom to" become your authentic self and pursue your true desires without the weight of artificial needs.

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Capítulo 5

Be Self-Determined: Define Your Own Success Criteria

Our education system consistently trains children to orient themselves around external reference points - standardized test scores, grade curves, class rankings, and national percentile measurements - rather than tracking their individual growth and progress. This deeply ingrained pattern of external comparison carries into adulthood, where people continue measuring their worth against societal benchmarks, career trajectories, and lifestyle markers they never consciously chose for themselves. Being self-determined means fundamentally shifting your reference point from external comparisons to internal standards. It requires the courage to define success on your own terms, even when those terms differ from societal expectations. This means getting crystal clear about your personal values, understanding why you want what you want, and releasing the need to compete with or validate yourself through others' achievements. Social media has dramatically intensified our tendency toward GAP thinking through constant exposure to curated highlights of others' lives. Studies show that 90% of users specifically engage with social platforms to compare themselves with others they perceive as more successful, attractive, or accomplished. This behavior pattern leads to documented decreases in self-esteem and increased rates of anxiety and depression. As tech philosopher Jaron Lanier pointedly explains in "The Social Dilemma": "The gradual, slight, imperceptible change in your own behavior and perception is the product." These platforms are specifically designed to keep us in a state of perpetual comparison and dissatisfaction. Marketing expert Dean Jackson revolutionized his approach to success by making one crucial linguistic shift: changing "I'll be successful when..." to "I know I'm being successful when..." This subtle but powerful reframing led him to create a list of 10 personal success criteria that now guide his daily decisions and help him avoid the trap of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). His criteria include practical measures like maintaining passive revenue that exceeds his lifestyle needs, but also more qualitative markers such as waking up each day with the freedom to ask "What would I like to do today?", working exclusively on projects that excite him, and wearing his watch purely for curiosity rather than time management. Creating your own success criteria is fundamental to living in the GAIN mindset. It requires careful introspection to identify what truly matters to you, not what should matter according to others. This might include metrics like how many hours you spend with family, your level of creative satisfaction, or the impact you have on your community. As the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca described it, this state of self-determination is "euthymia" - the deep confidence that comes from knowing "you're on the right path and not led astray by the many tracks which cross yours of people who are hopelessly lost." This internal compass becomes especially crucial in our hyperconnected world where distractions and others' definitions of success constantly compete for our attention.

Capítulo 6

The Compound Effect of the GAP or GAIN

The GAP isn't just mentally draining-it physically ages and taxes your body. Research shows that aging is largely modulated by how genes interact with stressors. While short-term "hormetic stress" can strengthen cellular response, prolonged exposure creates "toxic stress" that shortens life. Each GAP experience creates a microtrauma that compounds over time. Conversely, being in the GAIN restores and empowers-optimistic people typically live 10+ years longer than pessimists. A fascinating study of Catholic nuns found that those whose journal entries at age 20 contained joyful content lived nearly a decade longer than those whose entries were negative or neutral. By age 85, 90% of the happiest nuns remained alive versus only 34% of the least happy group. The emerging field of epigenetics demonstrates that our interpretation of events determines how stress and illness impact our bodies. Hotel room cleaners who were told their work constituted "good exercise" showed measurable health improvements (decreased weight, blood pressure, body fat, and BMI) compared to those who weren't informed-despite no behavioral changes. Their perception alone altered their physical response. Similarly, people given identical milkshakes responded differently physiologically based solely on whether they believed they were consuming an "indulgent" 620-calorie shake or a "sensible" 120-calorie one. Those thinking they had the higher-calorie shake showed decreased ghrelin (hunger hormone) levels, while those believing they had the lower-calorie option remained hungry. The GAP mindset appears even in young children. The author's 2-year-old daughter became inconsolable when her sister took one of her six spoons. Despite having five spoons, she could only focus on the one she didn't have-creating scarcity and preventing gratitude. The antidote is gratitude-grateful people don't obsess over comparisons and can make smart decisions even when outcomes are unequal. Having language to describe the GAP/GAIN distinction creates awareness that allows us to catch ourselves and others slipping into the GAP.

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Always Measure Backward

Measuring backward is the key to maintaining hope and motivation. Physical therapist Jill Bishop demonstrates this with her special needs patients, like Rosie who has lissencephaly. By reminding parents of their children's progress-such as Rosie's journey from struggling to walk on grass to mastering it-Jill helps them appreciate meaningful gains that are easily forgotten when focused only on current challenges. Our brains naturally adapt to our "new normal" through automaticity, causing us to forget our gains unless we intentionally record them. The Conscious Competence Learning Model shows how we move from unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence, where skills become second nature and we forget our former struggles. Even highly successful entrepreneurs often feel like failures because they're measuring forward instead of backward. Coach Chad Johnson teaches them to "Always Measure Backward" (A.M.B.) by comparing their current position to where they started-remembering when making $50,000 seemed amazing. This shift is fundamental, revealing how being in the GAP affects their view of everything in life, including relationships with team members, spouses, and children. To truly appreciate your progress, you must measure backward from where you are to where you started. Create specific, detailed lists of your GAINS over different timeframes-10 years, 3 years, 12 months, and even 90 days. These GAINS include all forms of progress: accomplishments, experiences, relationships built, and lessons learned. The more specific you are, the more powerful the exercise becomes. Regular GAIN measurement builds confidence and motivation while cultivating gratitude for your former self rather than embarrassment. As Josh Waitzkin and Daniel Kahneman demonstrate, embracing how you've evolved your thinking is itself a powerful GAIN.

Capítulo 8

Measure 3 Wins Daily

The final hour before sleep represents a critical "sweet spot" that can dramatically influence both immediate and long-term success. Unfortunately, most people squander this valuable time engaged in GAP-thinking, mindlessly scrolling through social media, watching television, or stress eating - activities that often leave them feeling unfulfilled and anxious about their progress. To harness this powerful hour, implement a deliberate evening routine starting with putting your phone on airplane mode 30-60 minutes before bedtime. This creates a distraction-free space to reflect and plan. Then, document three specific "wins" from your day - these can range from major achievements like closing a business deal to smaller victories like maintaining your exercise routine or having a meaningful conversation with a family member. This practice serves dual purposes: it cultivates gratitude for progress made and builds confidence through acknowledgment of accomplishments. Following this reflection, identify precisely three wins you want to achieve tomorrow. The number three is intentionally limiting, following Jim Collins's wisdom that "If you have more than three priorities, you don't have any." These should be specific, achievable goals - not vague aspirations. For example, instead of "work on project," write "complete first draft of presentation slides." This nightly ritual creates a powerful psychological shift. Rather than ending your day ruminating on shortcomings, you'll fall asleep feeling accomplished. Instead of waking to anxiety and reactive behavior, you'll start each day with clear direction and purpose. With consistent practice, your ability to recognize GAINS will naturally strengthen - you'll begin noticing progress in unexpected places, from improved relationships to small personal developments. The power of this practice multiplies when shared with an accountability or "success" partner. This follows Pearson's Law, which states, "When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates." A daily two-minute text exchange with your partner creates external accountability and motivation. Share both your completed wins and tomorrow's goals in a simple format: Today's Wins: 1. [Specific achievement] 2. [Specific achievement] 3. [Specific achievement] Tomorrow's Goals: 1. [Specific goal] 2. [Specific goal] 3. [Specific goal] This structured approach to daily progress tracking becomes a self-reinforcing cycle of achievement. As you consistently document wins and set focused goals, you'll naturally spend less time in the GAP and more time recognizing and building upon your GAINS. The simplicity of the system - three daily wins, three future goals, one success partner - makes it sustainable while maximizing its impact on your productivity and personal growth.

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Capítulo 9

Transform Every Experience Into a Gain

On September 29, Howard Getson lost over $2 million before his morning coffee as the 2008 financial crisis began. During a workout later that day, Howard had an epiphany when he realized "no system works all the time, but there is always something that's working." While it was the worst day for him, trading is zero-sum-many people made money that day. This insight forced Howard to reexamine his investing approach. He discovered his rule shutting off any system that ever lost more than 20 percent had eliminated specialized systems that would have thrived in crash conditions. Instead of creating generalist systems that performed "okay" in any market, Howard shifted to developing specialized systems for every market condition with an overarching AI system to identify which trading approach to use as conditions changed. When you're in the GAIN, you proactively utilize experiences to become more adaptive and successful. Psychological flexibility-the ability to manage emotions rather than being managed by them-is essential for transforming experiences into growth. Research shows that high-hope people take "failures" and use them to adapt and find alternative pathways to their goals, while low-hope people simply disengage when hitting obstacles. The Nortons exemplify this principle-after losing their infant son Gavin, they made a conscious decision: "We will be better because of this, not bitter." This tragedy became a catalyst for Richie to quit his job, pursue his MBA, and write the book he'd been postponing. They transformed their most painful experiences into extraordinary GAINS by taking ownership of the meaning they gave their stories. To extract maximum value from any experience, you must actively transform it. Through deliberate rumination, you actively think about experiences, create meaning from them, and revise your life narrative positively. This process works best when written down in journal form and enhanced with gratitude. Without transforming experiences, you'll suffer from intrusive rumination-uncomfortable thoughts and emotions randomly hitting you. Being in the GAIN makes you antifragile-beyond resilient, you actually get better from challenges. You're not just seeing life on the bright side-you're taking every experience and transforming it to serve you, turning valleys into future peaks, and becoming better rather than bitter.

Capítulo 10

Life Beyond the Gap: Your Future in the Gain

Thomas Jefferson's formula of "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness" makes happiness an unachievable ideal. The fundamental flaw: happiness isn't something you pursue, like chasing a mirage in the desert. Ideals are like horizons-they illuminate your path but remain unreachable, constantly shifting further away as you approach them. This endless pursuit creates a perpetual state of dissatisfaction, where contentment always seems just out of reach. Instead of measuring yourself against ideals, measure backward to see your progress. This simple shift in perspective liberates you from the GAP and gets you off the hedonic treadmill where satisfaction is fleeting. When you stop harmful comparisons to others or idealized versions of yourself, you begin to appreciate your current position in life. Small victories become meaningful milestones - learning a new skill, improving a relationship, or overcoming a personal challenge. These experiences transform into GAINS, creating a foundation of achievement rather than a void of shortcoming. You can choose happiness right now, without waiting for future accomplishments or lamenting a non-transformed past. Every morning becomes an opportunity to acknowledge growth, whether in wisdom, relationships, or capabilities. The daily practice of measuring GAINS creates a compound effect - each backward measurement reveals layers of progress you might have overlooked. Professional achievements stack upon personal growth, relationships deepen through shared experiences, and wisdom accumulates through both successes and setbacks. When you truly embrace the GAIN, you'll be humbled by how far you've already come - from early career struggles to professional accomplishments, from relationship challenges to deeper connections, from uncertainty to growing confidence. Life becomes a continual upward spiral with infinitely more GAINS ahead, each step making you further and wiser than your former self. Your journey becomes uniquely yours, impossible to compare with others because no one else has your specific combination of experiences, lessons, and transformations. The more GAINS you create and acknowledge, the more your life develops its own incomparable narrative. Someone else might achieve similar external markers - career advancement, financial success, or personal milestones - but they cannot replicate your internal growth, your specific insights, or how you've transformed challenges into wisdom. Each forward step, measured backward, reveals new layers of progress: improved emotional intelligence, deeper self-awareness, stronger relationships, and expanded capabilities. Happiness becomes available in the present moment when you recognize it as a choice rather than a destination. The question isn't about pursuing happiness but choosing to acknowledge the GAINS you've already made. This shift transforms the journey from an endless chase of shifting ideals to a conscious appreciation of continuous growth. Your future expands not through relentless pursuit of new goals, but through the compounding effect of recognized and celebrated GAINS.

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Temas clave en La Brecha y la Ganancia

hedonic adaptation
backward measurement
subjective well-being
high-achiever psychology
internal success metrics

Citas de La Brecha y la Ganancia

The “Gain” is measuring yourself backward against where you were when you started. The “Gap” is measuring yourself forward against your ideal.
The pursuit of Happiness is a Trap.
Ideals, by definition, are unreachable.
When you're in the GAP, you lose what you have.
The GAIN mindset transforms every experience.

Personajes en La Brecha y la Ganancia

Dan SullivanAuthor and creator of the GAP and GAIN concept
Benjamin HardyCo-author and organizational psychologist
EdwardA client case study illustrating the GAP mindset
Dan JansenOlympic speed skater used as a GAIN case study

Sobre el Autor

Dan Sullivan y el Dr. Benjamin Hardy, autores de The Gap and The Gain, son reconocidos expertos en psicología emprendedora y estrategias de mentalidad de alto rendimiento. Sullivan, fundador de Strategic Coach®, ha pasado más de 30 años asesorando a más de 20,000 emprendedores a través de sus marcos transformadores, incluyendo los conceptos fundamentales de este libro.

Hardy, psicólogo organizacional y escritor número uno en Medium.com (2015–2018), combina el rigor académico con conocimientos prácticos de sus obras más vendidas como Willpower Doesn’t Work y Personality Isn’t Permanent. Su colaboración fusiona la experiencia de coaching en el mundo real de Sullivan con la pericia psicológica de Hardy para abordar el desafío universal de medir el progreso de manera efectiva.

El dúo fue coautor anteriormente de 10x Is Easier Than 2x y Who Not How, que se han convertido en lecturas esenciales para emprendedores que buscan un crecimiento exponencial. Las metodologías de Sullivan son utilizadas por ejecutivos de empresas Fortune 500, mientras que el blog de Hardy —leído por más de 100 millones de personas— ha aparecido en Forbes, CNBC y Psychology Today.

The Gap and The Gain destila sus principios distintivos en una guía práctica para replantear el éxito, con conceptos respaldados por líderes de la industria como Peter Diamandis y Chris Voss. El libro forma parte del catálogo de más de 50 publicaciones de Sullivan y ha sido traducido a 12 idiomas, consolidando su estatus como un clásico moderno de la mentalidad.

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The Pursuit of Happiness is a Trap

The GAP: Why Achievement Never Feels Enough

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The GAIN: Measuring Backward to Move Forward

Embrace the Freedom of 'Wants' Over the Attachment of 'Needs'

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Be Self-Determined: Define Your Own Success Criteria

The Compound Effect of the GAP or GAIN

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Always Measure Backward

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