The book is written by James Clear.
Created by Ankit Kumar — Last synced March 19, 2019
THE FUNDAMENTALS: Why Tiny Changes Make a Big Difference
1% worse every day for one year. 0.99365 = 00.03
1% better every day for one year. 1.01365 = 37.78
If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.
THE 1ST LAW: Make It Obvious
THE 2ND LAW: Make it Attractive
THE 3RD LAW: Make It Easy
THE 4TH LAW: Make It Satisfying
Quotes I Found Interesting
Business is a never-ending quest to deliver the same result in an easier fashion.
Carl Jung said, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.
If you start with $100, then a 50 percent gain will take you to $150. But you only need a 33 percent loss to take you back to $100. In other words, avoiding a 33 percent loss is just as valuable as achieving a 50 percent gain. As Charlie Munger says, “The first rule of compounding: Never interrupt it unnecessarily.”
ADVANCED TACTICS: How to Go from Being Merely Good to Being Truly Great
Everyone has at least a few areas in which they could be in the top 25% with some effort. In my case, I can draw better than most people, but I’m hardly an artist. And I’m not any funnier than the average standup comedian who never makes it big, but I’m funnier than most people. The magic is that few people can draw well and write jokes. It’s the combination of the two that makes what I do so rare. And when you add in my business background, suddenly I had a topic that few cartoonists could hope to understand without living it.”
“What’s the difference between the best athletes and everyone else?” I asked. “What do the really successful people do that most don’t?” He mentioned the factors you might expect: genetics, luck, talent. But then he said something I wasn’t expecting: “At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over and over.”
