We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
JAMES CLEARThe most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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. 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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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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We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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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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Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
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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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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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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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A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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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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The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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