If you can make your good habits more convenient, you’ll more likely to follow through on them.
We do it because motion allows us to feel like we’re making progress without running the risk of failure.
Sometimes motion is useful, but it will never produce an outcome by itself.
It’s friendship and community that embed a new identity and help behaviors last over the long run.
If history serve as a guide, the opportunities of the future will be more attractive than those of today.
One of the most practical ways to eliminate a bad habit is to reduce exposure to the cue that causes it.
If you want to make a habit a big part of your life, make the cue a big part of your environment.
You have the power to change your beliefs about yourself. Your identity is not set in stone. You have a choice in every moment.
Your habits are how you embody your identity.
Each chunk of information that is memorized opens up the mental space for more effortful thinking.
You need to regularly search for challenges that push you to your edge while continuing to make enough progress to stay motivated.
Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is the most popular.
Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.
Motion makes you feel like you’re getting things done. But really, you’re just preparing to get something done.
Your current habits are not necessarily the best way to solve the problems you face; they are just the methods you learned to use.
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
While it is not possible to transform every habit into a supernormal stimulus, we can make any habit more enticing.
This is the secret to self-control. Make the cues of your good habits obvious and the cues of your bad habits invisible.
People who make a specific plan for when and where they will perform a new habits are more likely to follow through.
You are not born with your present beliefs. Every belief, including those about yourself, is learned and conditioned through experience.