The problem isn’t knowledge. The problem was consistency.
Conversely, if an experience is not satisfying, we have little reason to repeat it.
(a.) Alt. of Atomical
What is rewarded is repeated. What is punished is avoided.
The world has changed much in recent years, but human nature has changed little.
A habit needs to be enjoyable for it to last. Change is easy when it is enjoyable.
Each small win feeds your desire.
Missing one workout happens, but I’m not going to miss two in a row.
It’s not always about what happens during the workout. It’s about being the type of person who doesn’t miss workouts.
The secret to maximizing your odds of success is to choose the right field of competiton.
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.
You just need enough ‘winning’ to experience satisfaction and just enough ‘wanting’ to experience desire.
Each chunk of information that is memorized opens up the mental space for more effortful thinking.
You can’t repeat the same things blindly and expect to become exceptional.
Without reflection, we can make excuses, create rationalizations, and lie to ourselves.
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
I know that if things were going to improve, I was the one responsible for making it happen.
These improvements were minor, but they gave me a sense of control over my life.
With the same habits, you’ll end with up with the same results. But with better habits, anything is possible.
It was gradual evolution, a long series of small wins and tiny breakthroughs.
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