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In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.

James Clear

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Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.
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Boredom Face Fall In Love Improvement Point Yourself
People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
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Close Effort Limitation People Rare
Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Action Count Leadership Motivational Smart
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Action Design Easy Life Yourself
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride Yourself
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
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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Culture Expectation Habit Normal People Surround Yourself
We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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Group Habit Imitation Myself Particular Powerful
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Attention Freedom Habit Load Mental Work Yourself
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
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
Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Better Count Feeling Impact Run

In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.

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