We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
I have never seen someone consistently stick to positive habits in a negative environment.
Success is not a goal to reach or a final line to cross. It is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.
You need to regularly search for challenges that push you to your edge while continuing to make enough progress to stay motivated.
We’ll jump through a lot of hoops to avoid a little bit of immediate pain.
Life feels reactive, but it is actually predictive.
Without dopamine, desire died. And without desire, action stopped.
Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.
We often dismiss small changes because they don’t seem to matter very much in the moment.
Awareness is often enough to motivate change. Simply tracking your food intake will motivate you to alter it. Merely writing down your problems may spark ideas for possible solutions. The process star...
Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is the most popular.
The secret to maximizing your odds of success is to choose the right field of competiton.
Dopamine released not only when you experience pleasure, but also when you anticipate it.
Here’s the punchline: You can break a habit, but you’re unlikely to forget it.
You have the power to change your beliefs about yourself. Your identity is not set in stone. You have a choice in every moment.
The focus should always be on becoming that type of person, not getting a particular outcome.
Each chunk of information that is memorized opens up the mental space for more effortful thinking.
But one push-up is better than not exercising. It’s better to do less than you hoped than to do nothing at all.
Both common sense and scientific evidence agree: reptition is a form of change.
We do it because motion allows us to feel like we’re making progress without running the risk of failure.