Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
JAMES CLEARWe imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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You get what you repeat.
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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course.
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Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.
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Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
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A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are.
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Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.
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You need to know who you want to be.
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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement.
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Small changes often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold. The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.
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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
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