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“the aggregation of marginal gains,”
Strategy Of building habits
Unfortunately, the slow pace of transformation also makes it easy to let a bad habit slide.
Success is the product of daily habits—not
If you want to predict where you’ll end up in life, all you have to do is follow the curve of tiny gains or tiny losses,
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
habits often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold
Your work was not wasted; it is just being stored.
FORGET ABOUT GOALS, FOCUS ON SYSTEMS INSTEAD
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
Problem #2: Achieving a goal is only a momentary change.
Problem #3: Goals restrict your happiness.
When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy.
Problem #4: Goals are at odds with long-term progress.
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
The goal is not to read a book, the goal is to become a reader.
your habits are how you embody your identity.
When you make your bed each day, you embody the identity of an organized person.
the process of building habits is actually the process of becoming yourself.
Eliminate the cue and your habit will never start. Reduce the craving and you won’t experience enough motivation to act. Make the behavior difficult and you won’t be able to do it. And if the reward fails to satisfy your desire, then you’ll have no reason to do it again in the future.
How to Create a Good Habit The 1st law (Cue): Make it obvious. The 2nd law (Craving): Make it attractive. The 3rd law (Response): Make it easy. The 4th law (Reward): Make it satisfying.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
If you can’t seem to get any work done, leave your phone in another room for a few hours.
Exercise. Many people associate exercise with being a challenging task that drains energy and wears you down. You can just as easily view it as a way to develop skills and build you up. Instead of telling yourself “I need to go run in the morning,” say “It’s time to build endurance and get fast.”
As Voltaire once wrote, “The best is the enemy of the good.”
