The world has changed much in recent years, but human nature has changed little.
Pleasure teaches your brain that a behavior is worth remembering and repeating.
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Sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making bad habits hard.
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
You don’t need to map out every feature of a new habit. You just need to practice it.
Most days, we’d rather be wrong with the crowd than be right by ourselves.
The people with the best self-control are typically the ones who need to use it the least.
No behavior happens in isolation. Each action becomes a cue that triggers the next behavior.
Small habits can make a meaningful difference by providing evidence of a new identity.
Everything is impermanent. Life is constantly changing, so you need to periodically check in to see if you old habits and beliefs are still serving you.
There have been a lot of sets that I haven’t felt like finishing, but I’ve never regretted doing the workout.
You just need enough ‘winning’ to experience satisfaction and just enough ‘wanting’ to experience desire.
At some point, you need to make sure you’re playing the right game for your skillset.
In theory, you can enjoy almost anything. In practice, you are more likely to enjoy the things that come easily to you.
No matter how consistent you are with your habits, it is inevitable that life will interrupt you at some point.
When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do.
It is emotion that allows you to mark things as good, bad, or indifferent.
Whenever we are unsure how to act, we look to the group to guide our behavior.
We often say yes to little requests because we are not clear enough about what we need to be doing instead.
Building habits in the present allows you to do more of what you want in the future.