Performance Hack #15: Aim for Streaks It’s important to build good habits to be able to work productively at whatever you set your mind to. One of the best ways to develop habits is to aim for streaks. In the words of comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who marked an ‘x’ on the calendar for every day that he wrote a joke, ‘Don’t break the chain.’ Look at the most important goals in your life currently, and it’s likely that every single one of them relies on consistency. To write your magnum opus, you need to write every single day. To get fit, you need to exercise every day. And you can’t learn a
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