Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
JAMES CLEARHow can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?
More James Clear Quotes
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I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.
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Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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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. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.
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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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The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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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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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.
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What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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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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But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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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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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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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.
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Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act in alignment with that belief.
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Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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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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The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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You don’t have to build the habits everyone tells you to build. Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular.
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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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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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