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.
Whenever we are unsure how to act, we look to the group to guide our behavior.
The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
At some point, you need to make sure you’re playing the right game for your skillset.
The culture we live in determines which behaviors are attractive to us.
If you no longer expect smoking to bring you any benefits, you have no reason to smoke.
Your habits are modern-day solutions to ancient desires. New versions of old vices.
Your current habits are not necessarily the best way to solve the problems you face; they are just the methods you learned to use.
Habits are about associations. These associations determine whether we predict a habit to be worth repeating or not.
Life feels reactive, but it is actually predictive.
Behavior only shifts if the punishment is painful enough and reliably enforced.
Behind every system of actions are a system of belief.
It is hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior.
The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you’ll be to maintain the habits associated with it.
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
Improvements are only temporary until they become part of who you are.
Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
You are not born with your present beliefs. Every belief, including those about yourself, is learned and conditioned through experience.
Your habits are how you embody your identity.
In this way, the process of building habits is actually the process of becoming yourself.
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