It is hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior.
The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you’ll be to maintain the habits associated with it.
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
Improvements are only temporary until they become part of who you are.
Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
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.
In this way, the process of building habits is actually the process of becoming yourself.
Small habits can make a meaningful difference by providing evidence of a new identity.
If you keep casting the same votes you’ve always cast, you’re going to get the same results you’ve always had.
Your habits shape your identity, and your identity shapes your habits. It’s a two-way street.
You need to know who you want to be. Otherwise, your quest for change is like a boat without a rudder.
You have the power to change your beliefs about yourself. Your identity is not set in stone. You have a choice in every moment.
Building better habits isn’t about littering your day with life hacks.
Fundamentally, habits are not about having something. They are about becoming someone.
The primary reason the brain remembers the past is to better predict what will work in the future.
Building habits in the present allows you to do more of what you want in the future.
With enough practice, you can pick up on the cues that predicts certain outcomes without consciously thinking about it.
We underestimate how much our brains and bodies can do without thinking.
The more automatic a behavior becomes, the less likely we are to consciously think about it.
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