Using technology to automate your habits is the most reliable and effective way to guarantee the right behavior.
Pleasure teaches your brain that a behavior is worth remembering and repeating.
The world has changed much in recent years, but human nature has changed little.
To get a habit to stick you need to feel immediately successful – even if it’s in a small way.
The secret to maximizing your odds of success is to choose the right field of competiton.
Our deeply rooted preferences make certain behaviors easier for some people than for others.
Our genes do not eliminate the need for hard work. They clarify it. They tell us what to work hard on.
The difference (in successful people) is that they still find a way to show up despite the feelings of bordeom.
Each chunk of information that is memorized opens up the mental space for more effortful thinking.
Without reflection, we can make excuses, create rationalizations, and lie to ourselves.
It’s remarkable what you can build if you just don’t stop.
I love reading.
For example, if you think you are a certain way as a person and that is just who you are and you don't have the power to change, that will become true for you. Whatever image, thoughts or words you co...
Habits are nothing but a form of performing work with some satisfaction... We allow them to persist by being content with the outcome they provide. It's fine in some cases, but it becomes a disaster w...
I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.
I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the maki...
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
I had never considered myself a mastery of a topic, but rather someone who was experimenting alongside my readers.
Habits seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous.
All big things come from small beginnings.
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