The most effective form of learning is practice, not planning.
When you dream about making change, excitement inevitably takes over and you end up trying to do too much too soon.
Sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making bad habits hard.
The best way to break a bad habit is to make it impractical to do.
The more a habit becomes part of your life, the less you need outside encouragement to follow through.
Incentives can start a habit. Identity sustains a habit.
We repeat bad habits because they serve us in some way, and that makes them hard to abandon.
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
Genes do not determine your destiny; they determine your areas of opportunity.
You don’t have to build the habits that everyone tells you to build.
In theory, you can enjoy almost anything. In practice, you are more likely to enjoy the things that come easily to you.
Your habits are how you embody your identity.
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
Habits do not restrict freedom. They create it.
By the time we become adults, we rarely notice the habits that are running our lives.
We often say yes to little requests because we are not clear enough about what we need to be doing instead.
Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.
Whenever we are unsure how to act, we look to the group to guide our behavior.
It is emotion that allows you to mark things as good, bad, or indifferent.
The more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long term goals.
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