The Law of Diminishing Returns: Why More Effort Doesn’t Always Mean More Results
In economics, productivity, psychology, and even daily life, few principles are as universally visible—and universally misunderstood—as the Law of Diminishing Returns. It is the silent force that determines why studying longer can make you learn less, why companies fail when they overwork employees, and why pouring more fertilizer on crops eventually makes them grow slower instead of faster. Born in the fields of classical economics but now applied across every discipline, from business strategy to self-development, the Law of Diminishing Returns explains a fundamental truth about the world: after a certain point, adding more input produces less and less output—until it stops working altogether.
At its core, the Law of Diminishing Returns states that when one factor of production increase...
