10,000 vs 20,000 steps

There's a Landshark tweet:

10,000 steps is hailed as the daily goal, and while certainly it's good to walk 10,000 steps, it's not very hard. You should get it by accident.

20,000 steps, on the other hand, is something only a person of a different kind can achieve. They live a life distinctly different from the norm (the norm = being happy to achieve 10,000). To say "oh, you just walk twice as much" is to undermine the difference. It's not just quantitative, but qualitative.

There's something deeper here about the levels of commitment to a thing. How does this pattern repeat in other contexts?

I believe the standards we have on parenting are so low today. If you do what I consider the bare minimum (the 10,000 steps), you're "one of the good ones". If you truly want the best for your kids, you'll probably make lifestyle choices very dissimilar to the average, like not putting your kid to daycare, or homeschooling, or moving to another environment. These decisions might require completely changing how your household operates, you might quit your job to commit to it. The 10k person doesn't do this, but the 20k might.

Most people who say they love traveling or food or music mean it in the 10,000 way. It tells you basically nothing about who they are. But imagine someone says they love food in the 20,000 way, now that's interesting. They probably love experimenting in the kitchen, or learning about new techniques or food customs from other cultures, and maybe they grow / hunt some of their own ingredients, too. A qualitatively different kind of person vs the normal foodie.

I think you should be hitting your 10,000 steps in many, many areas, but you must always have at least one area where you're hitting 20,000.