“Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.”

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.

Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.

Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.

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

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that’s just the way it is.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.

Knowledge must come through action.

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.