Having less often leads us to use our things more often and with more enjoyment, because we're not fighting our way through a welter of unwanted stuff.
Instead of always worrying about being efficient, I wanted to spend time on exploration, experimentation, digression, and failed attempts that didn’t always look productive.
Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.
Nothing is more exhausting than the task that’s never started.
From my observation, habits in four areas do most to boost feelings of self-control, and in this way strengthen the Foundation of all our habits. We do well to begin by tackling the habits that help u...
What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.
I started thinking more about music. I thought I'd accepted the fact that, as part of Being Gretchen, I didn't really like music, but in fact, the truth was slightly different: I thought I didn't like...
Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness; a review of research by the Corporation for National and Community Service shows that those who aid the cau...
I’d asked myself, Why do habits make it possible for people to change? and now I knew the answer. Habits make change possible by freeing us from decision making and from using self-control.
—Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography
We won’t make ourselves more creative and productive by copying other people’s habits, even the habits of geniuses; we must know our own nature, and what habits serve us best.
Like Dr. Johnson, I’m an Abstainer: I find it far easier to give up something altogether than to indulge moderately. And this distinction has profound implications for habits.
The happiest, healthiest, most productive people aren’t those from a particular Tendency, but rather they’re the people who have figured out how to harness the strengths of their Tendency, counteract...
Rebels aren't persuaded by arguments such as 'People are counting on you,' 'You've already paid for it'...'Things should be done this way,' 'You have an appointment,' 'You said you'd do it'...'It's ag...
Day three days a week for six weeks,
Procrastinators may resemble Sprinters, because they too tend to finish only when they’re against a deadline, but the two types are quite different. Sprinters choose to work at the last minute because...
It is by studying little things, that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath describe
Consistency, repetition, no decision—this was the way to develop the ease of a true habit.
We set out to be wrecked.
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