Our environment determines the suitability of our genes and the utility of your natural talents.
If you want to be truly great, selecting the right place to focus is crucial.
Genes do not determine your destiny; they determine your areas of opportunity.
Our deeply rooted preferences make certain behaviors easier for some people than for others.
You don’t have to build the habits that everyone tells you to build.
Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is the most popular.
In theory, you can enjoy almost anything. In practice, you are more likely to enjoy the things that come easily to you.
Pick the right habits and progress is easy. Pick the wrong habit and life is a struggle.
When a habit is easy, you are more likely to be successful. When you are successful, you are more likely to feel satisfied.
The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
Even if you’re not the most naturally gifted, you can often win by being the best in a very narrow category.
A good player works hard to win the game everyone else is playing. A great player creates a new game that favors their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.
If you find a more favorable environment, you can transform the situation from one where the odds are against you to one where they are in your favor.
People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.
At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey to self-improvement: You have to fall in love with boredom.
You can’t repeat the same things blindly and expect to become exceptional.
The tighter we cling to an identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it.
Everything is impermanent. Life is constantly changing, so you need to periodically check in to see if you old habits and beliefs are still serving you.
The holy grail of habit change is not a single 1 percent improvement, but a thousand of them.
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