“The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.”

People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.

Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.

With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.

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.

Perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.

Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.

You get what you repeat.

The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.

How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?

In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption

What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?

Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.

As a general rule, the more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals.

Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.

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.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.

Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

Strong Characters are needed in the game.

In front of 40,000 people, you don’t really want to drop a catch or misfield. It’s part and parcel of the game.

Make a game plan and stick to it. Unless it’s not working.