Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is the most popular.
You need to regularly search for challenges that push you to your edge while continuing to make enough progress to stay motivated.
Each chunk of information that is memorized opens up the mental space for more effortful thinking.
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reas...
It is hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior.
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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.
People who make a specific plan for when and where they will perform a new habits are more likely to follow through.
Here’s the punchline: You can break a habit, but you’re unlikely to forget it.
This is the secret to self-control. Make the cues of your good habits obvious and the cues of your bad habits invisible.
While it is not possible to transform every habit into a supernormal stimulus, we can make any habit more enticing.
Your culture sets your expectation for what is ‘normal.’
Many of our daily habits are imitations of people we admire.
Your current habits are not necessarily the best way to solve the problems you face; they are just the methods you learned to use.
Motion makes you feel like you’re getting things done. But really, you’re just preparing to get something done.
But one push-up is better than not exercising. It’s better to do less than you hoped than to do nothing at all.
I can’t be perfect, but I can avoid a second lapse.
Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.
The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom.
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