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January 17 - February 28, 2023
The 5 Scientific Truths Behind Excellent Habits Truth #1: World-class willpower isn’t an inborn strength, but a skill developed through relentless practice. Getting up at dawn is perfect self-control training. Truth #2: Personal discipline is a muscle. The more you stretch it, the stronger it grows. Therefore, the samurais of self-regulation actively create conditions of hardship to build their natural power. Truth #3: Like other muscles, willpower weakens when tired. Recovery is, therefore, absolutely necessary for the expression of mastery. And to manage decision fatigue. Truth #4:
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The 5 Scientific Truths Behind Excellent Habits Truth #1: World-class willpower isn’t an inborn strength, but a skill developed through relentless practice. Getting up at dawn is perfect self-control training.
Truth #2: Personal discipline is a muscle. The more you stretch it, the stronger it grows. Therefore, the samurais of self-regulation actively create conditions of hardship to build their natural power.
Truth #3: Like other muscles, willpower weakens when tired. Recovery is, therefore, absolutely necessary for the expression of mastery. And to manage decision fatigue.
Truth #4: Installing any great habit successfully follows a distinct four-part pattern for automation of the routine. Follow it explicitly for lasting results. Truth #5: Increasing self-control in one area of your life elevates self-control in all areas of your life. This is why joining The 5 AM Club is the game-changing habit that will lift everything else that you do.
The 3 Values of Heroic Habit-Makers Value #1: Victory demands consistency and persistency. Value #2: Following through on what is started determines the size of the personal respect that will be generated. Value #3: The way you practice in private is precisely the way you’ll perform once you’re in public.
The 1 General Theory of Self-Discipline Spartans To regularly do that which is hard but important when it feels most uncomfortable is how warriors are born.
“I don’t wish for an easy life because there is no growth of my powers there. Give me a challenging life—one that brings out the finest in me. For this makes an iron will. And an unconquerable character.
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“I don’t wish for an easy life because there is no growth of my powers there. Give me a challenging life—one that brings out the finest in me. For this makes an iron will. And an unconquerable character."
“To remain loyal to your noble ideal not only during the weeks after you thought up the dream but over the long months and perhaps extended years in the parched desert of creative implementation while you endure rejection, exhaustion, the stones of jealous peers, the skepticism of your loved ones, being diverted by other attractive opportunities and finding your way through the isolated winters of self-doubt. This is what separates the also-rans from the icons.
“To remain loyal to your noble ideal not only during the weeks after you thought up the dream but over the long months and perhaps extended years in the parched desert of creative implementation while you endure rejection, exhaustion, the stones of jealous peers, the skepticism of your loved ones, being diverted by other attractive opportunities and finding your way through the isolated winters of self-doubt. This is what separates the also-rans from the icons.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
You become undefeatable in the world by what you do when no one’s watching.”
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You become undefeatable in the world by what you do when no one’s watching.”
when faced with a choice, always choose the one that pushes you the most, increases your growth and promotes the unfoldment of your gifts, talents and personal prowess
Stage two is called ‘Installation’ because it’s like you’re going through an interior renovation, of sorts. Former foundations need to be torn down so that much better ones can be put up. This stage will make you feel confused, stressed out and frustrated.
Cortisol, the fear hormone, is elevated at this time so you’ll feel scared a lot of the time. All that’s happening within your brain is consuming huge reserves of energy.
The ancient sages, seers and philosophers called such a profound personal transformation ‘The Dark Night of the Soul.’ What was once a caterpillar is messily—yet almost magically—becoming a butterfly. The mystics wrote of deep and real change as a journey involving a series of little deaths. The old you must die so a better you can be reborn
The fact is that the illusion of safety is always so much more deadly than your rise toward personal mastery.
“This final stage is when it all comes together,” he explained, “and you get to experience the benefits of your fantastic commitment to being a lifetime member of The 5 AM Club. You’re nearing the end of the roughly sixty-six-day period required for a human brain—and being—to encode a routine. So now it’s success time. You’ve advanced through the initial disruption, you’ve made it through the dangerousness and chaos of the middle phase and you’ve come out the other side stronger, more skilled and with greater intimacy of your most supreme—and invincible—nature. You’re now the next version of
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“The primary purpose of life is growth: to be continuously pushing yourself to materialize more of your potential.
I’m not afraid of failing. That’s just part of learning to fly. I’m just horrified of not growing.”
Here’s the real gift from your excellence and devotion over the sixty-six or so days: the willpower you were using to lay down the early-rising habit is now freed up for another world-class behavior, so you have the chance to grow even more productive, prosperous, joyful and successful.
knowledge unimplemented leaves potential under
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knowledge unimplemented leaves potential undercapitalized.
Life is too short to take things too seriously. And at the end of her life, what would matter most would not be whether those venture capitalists had ownership of her enterprise, but who she became as a human being. And the quality of the craft she produced. And how many people she helped. And how much she laughed. And how well she lived.
pure leaders. People who influence not through the strength of a large title and by the threat of a big position but via the power of their characters, the nobility of their expertise, the compassion in their hearts and by their unusual dedication to leaving everyone they meet better than they found them. Leaders run less by the selfish addictions of the ego and more by the selfless dictates of our greater wisdom.”
brain tattoos slowly appeared: #1. To make a habit last, never install it alone. #2. The teacher learns the most. #3. When you most feel like quitting is the time you must continue advancing.
In that moment you feel you can’t go further lies an enormous opportunity to forge an entirely new level of willpower. When you feel you can’t continue, progress a little longer. Your self-discipline muscle will be amplified considerably. And the degree of your self-respect will increase vastly. And few things are as essential to exponential productivity, leading your field and the creation of a life you adore as raising the appreciation you have for yourself.”
“Any solid achievement must, of necessity, take years of humble apprenticeship and estrangement from most of society.”
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“Any solid achievement must, of necessity, take years of humble apprenticeship and estrangement from most of society.”
“I also want you both to remember that a wishbone without a backbone doesn’t really get you very far,”
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“I also want you both to remember that a wishbone without a backbone doesn’t really get you very far,”
dreams and desires are just wishbones. Rising before daybreak is your backbone to get them done.
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dreams and desires are just wishbones. Rising before daybreak is your backbone to get them done.
It’s what you do over the sixty minutes after you wake up that makes The 5 AM Club so game-changing.
beginning your day intelligently, healthily and peacefully isn’t only about optimizing your public and private success. It’s also about protecting it.”
‘Memento homo’ is Latin for ‘remember you are only a man,’” the billionaire answered. “The Auriga did this to keep the leader’s arrogance in check and to help the leader manage the inevitable invitation to egotism that all great success inescapably brings. The ritual was a profound discipline to ensure the Dux remained monomaniacally focused on his true mission of making himself,
and the empire he ruled, even better—and not diluting all his energies on the amusements and excess that cause dynasties to fall.”
always remember to keep improving the way you run it each morning. Stay hungry. Keep a white-belt mentality around it.
“It’s time to stop being a fugitive from your highest self and accept membership into a new order of ability, bravery and understanding of the call on your lives to inspire humanity.”
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“It’s time to stop being a fugitive from your highest self and accept membership into a new order of ability, bravery and understanding of the call on your lives to inspire humanity.”
Failing to keep self-promises is one of the reasons so many of us don’t love ourselves. Not following through on what we tell ourselves we’ll do so destroys our sense of personal worth and dissolves our self-esteem.
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy I walked you through earlier. We always perform in a way that is aligned with the way we see ourselves. And so, our thinking creates our results. And the less we value ourselves and our powers,” he went on, “the less power we have access to.”
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The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy I walked you through earlier. We always perform in a way that is aligned with the way we see ourselves. And so, our thinking creates our results. And the less we value ourselves and our powers,” he went on, “the less power we have access to.
The first twenty-minute pocket of The 20/20/20 Formula requires that you Move. Simply put, doing some sweaty exercise first thing every morning will revolutionize the quality of your days. The second pocket encourages you to Reflect for twenty minutes. This segment is designed to help you reaccess your natural power, boost self-awareness, dissolve your stress, fuel your happiness and restore your inner peace in an era of acute overstimulation and excessive activity. And you’ll round out this sixty-minute Victory Hour of personal fortification with twenty minutes centered around ensuring that
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“Great fortune and weighty wisdom keep coming my way. I’m always a leader, never a victim. A lion, not a sheep. I love my life and am making it even better every day. And the more people I help, the more happy I am.”
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“Great fortune and weighty wisdom keep coming my way. I’m always a leader, never a victim. A lion, not a sheep. I love my life and am making it even better every day. And the more people I help, the more happy I am.”
Always remember that the greatest of leaders were all servant leaders. The less you make it all about you, and the more your obsession focuses on the upliftment of others, the more you’ll increase your identity as a genuine empire-builder. And grow into a history-maker.”
“Everyone dreams of being a legend until it comes time to do the work that legends do.”
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“Everyone dreams of being a legend until it comes time to do the work that legends do.”
Edison once said, ‘Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment.’
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Edison once said, ‘Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment.’
The 10 Tactics of Lifelong Genius
Tactic #1: The Tight Bubble of Total Focus (TBTF)
The Tight Bubble of Total Focus is a metaphorical moat that you build around your assets of genius, so they not only stay strong—they increase.
five primary assets that all superproducers defend are mental focus, physical energy, personal willpower, original talent and daily time.
Tactic #2: The 90/90/1 Rule
For the next ninety days, schedule yourself to invest the first ninety minutes of your workday on the one activity that, when completed at world-class, will cause you to own your field.
elite creatives do what they do is by understanding the power of oscillation. They structure their work cycles so that they alternate bursts of deep focus and ferocious intensity of performance with periods of real rest and full recovery.
elite creatives do what they do is by understanding the power of oscillation. They structure their work cycles so that they alternate bursts of deep focus and ferocious intensity of performance with periods of real rest and full recovery.
the most effective business leaders are at their productive peak on the days when, even if they’ve faced some serious setbacks, they’ve actively engaged their mindset on the progress they’ve made.
One of the great keys to terrific performance, then, is to train your attention on making consistent 1% wins and micro-achievements throughout each hour of your workday.
The more vividly I value everything in my life, the more everything in my life climbs in value. So, become a collector of awesome experiences instead of a consumer of material things. Simplify your life and make a return to the essential enjoyments
The more vividly I value everything in my life, the more everything in my life climbs in value. So, become a collector of awesome experiences instead of a consumer of material things. Simplify your life and make a return to the essential enjoyments
your past is a servant that has made you all you now are—not a companion to spend much time with in your present or a friend to carry into your spotless future.
