In optimizing health and efficiency, “marginal gains” assert that a 1% daily benefit triples your effectiveness by the end of the year.
The opposite is equally true, where “marginal error” slowly migrates off course.
Consider a building, and as each story is built, it is only 1% off in each measurement, but without correction over time, the building will topple sideways. This is also the tipping point, not of success but destruction.