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Keystone habits say that success doesn’t depend on getting every single thing right, but instead relies on identifying a few key priorities and fashioning them into powerful levers.
Keystone habits offer what is known within academic literature as “small wins.”
“More common is the circumstance where small wins are scattered … like miniature experiments that test implicit theories about resistance and opportunity and uncover both resources and barriers that were invisible before the situation was stirred up.”
“Eventually we figured out it was best to concentrate on these tiny moments of success and build them into mental triggers. We worked them into a routine.
Starbucks—like a handful of other companies—has succeeded in teaching the kind of life skills that schools, families, and communities have failed to provide.
At the core of that education is an intense focus on an all-important habit: willpower.
Students who exerted high levels of willpower were more likely to earn higher grades in their classes and gain admission into more selective schools.
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.”2
WHEN KIDS LEARN HABITS FOR DELAYING THEIR CRAVINGS… THOSE HABITS SPILL OVER TO OTHER PARTS OF LIFE
