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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

James Clear

In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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Authentic Direction Feeling Genuine Head Right Yourself
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
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Consumption Creation Fact Leadership Oneself Possession
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.
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Fall In Love Happiness Permission Process Product Wait
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.
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Achievement Focus Habit Identity Result
Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death.
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Born Death Discipline Man Soft
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Bad Easy Goodness Habit Oneself Repeat
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
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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Belief Change Goal Habit Hard Planning Yourself
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
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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Bad Cost Future Goodness Habit Present
The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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Hurt Work Yourself
If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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Better Goal Improvement Result System Yourself
What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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Principle Stand Value Yourself

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

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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

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