## Progressive Summary **Executive Summary (Layer 3)**: **For universal life practices — health, money, sleep, relationships — being good enough beats being the best, because these foundations cannot be delegated or skipped the way specialized work can.** **Key Insight (Layer 2)**: "It tends to be more important to be good enough than to be the best." **Context (Layer 1)**: Scott Young, Foundations Project (2024-25), a 12-month experiment devoting one month each to fitness, money, sleep, focus, and other universal practices. **Cross-Domain Connections**: [[Focus on High-Leverage Skills]], [[Foundations Are Universal Practices Not Specialized Skills]] **Discoverability Score**: 8/10 --- Mastery has steep diminishing returns for foundations. A career skill rewards being top 1% because it is leveraged and you can specialize. But you cannot outsource your own sleep, eating, or fitness — everyone must clear a baseline in every foundation, and no one can clear it for you. So effort should flow toward raising your weakest foundation to "good enough" rather than perfecting a strong one. The person who is mediocre across all twelve foundations lives better than the one who masters fitness while neglecting money and relationships. Breadth of adequacy beats depth of excellence when the practices are non-delegable and universally required.