Distraction is a good thing because you need distractions to practice meditation.

Living below your current means increases your future means.

It is emotion that allows you to mark things as good, bad, or indifferent.

Desire is the difference between where you are now and where you want to be in the future.

The cause of your habits is actually the prediction that precedes them.

Life feels reactive, but it is actually predictive.

Habits are about associations. These associations determine whether we predict a habit to be worth repeating or not.

Your current habits are not necessarily the best way to solve the problems you face; they are just the methods you learned to use.

Your habits are modern-day solutions to ancient desires. New versions of old vices.

If you no longer expect smoking to bring you any benefits, you have no reason to smoke.

The culture we live in determines which behaviors are attractive to us.

Many of our daily habits are imitations of people we admire.

Most days, we’d rather be wrong with the crowd than be right by ourselves.

The normal behavior of the tribe often overpowers the desired behavior of the individual.

Whenever we are unsure how to act, we look to the group to guide our behavior.

It’s friendship and community that embed a new identity and help behaviors last over the long run.

Remaining part of a group after achieving a goal is crucial to maintaining your habits.

Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself. You’ll rise together.

Your culture sets your expectation for what is ‘normal.’

Peer pressure is bad only if you’re surrounded by bad influences.