A habit needs to be enjoyable for it to last. Change is easy when it is enjoyable.
Each chunk of information that is memorized opens up the mental space for more effortful thinking.
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Habits seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous.
The world has changed much in recent years, but human nature has changed little.
What is rewarded is repeated. What is punished is avoided.
Conversely, if an experience is not satisfying, we have little reason to repeat it.
Instead of trying to engineer a perfect habit from the start, do the easy thing on a more consistent basis.
Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.
The central idea is to create an environment where doing the right thing is as easy as possible.
People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
Your goal might be to run a marathon, but your gateway habit is to put on your running shoes.
But the point is not to do one thing. The point is to master the habit of showing up.
You just need enough ‘winning’ to experience satisfaction and just enough ‘wanting’ to experience desire.
This means that simply putting in your reps is one of the most critical steps you can take to encoding a new habit.
When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something.
Your habits change depending on the room you are in and the cues in front of you.
The problem isn’t knowledge. The problem was consistency.
Sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making bad habits hard.
Without reflection, we can make excuses, create rationalizations, and lie to ourselves.
If you want to master a habit, the key is to start with repetition, not perfection.
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