At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey to self-improvement: You have to fall in love with boredom.
What matters is whether your habits are putting you on the path toward success.
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
The primary reason the brain remembers the past is to better predict what will work in the future.
We underestimate how much our brains and bodies can do without thinking.
A good player works hard to win the game everyone else is playing. A great player creates a new game that favors their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.
You don’t want to keep practicing a habit if it becomes ineffective.
You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly and, in many cases, automatically.
Learning one new idea won’t make you a genius, but a commitment to lifelong learning can be transformative.
Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems underground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six weeks.
The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision.
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
When possible, the brain makes a behavior into a habit, which saves effort and therefore gives us more capacity to deal with complex, novel, or urgent matters.
In the messy world of a college dorm, I made it a point to keep my room neat and tidy.
Behaviors need to remain novel in order for them to stay attractive and satisfying.
When stuck in middle of a choice, we always do what we must. Do things we think is right. We are actually never get stuck. We just love to feel stuck.
I should pursue only those habits that would make me feel freer and stronger.
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