Release year: 2018

Author: James Clear

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I think this book greatly summarizes about 5 of the books I read so far. It’s like “Mastery”, “So Good, They Can’t Ignore You”, “Unlearn”, “Psycho-Cybernetics”, all rolled up into one. An easy recommend for someone interest in self-help.

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⭐ Star quotes

  • (p. 16) Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.
  • (p. 20) A hallmark of any compounding process: the most powerful outcomes are delayed.
  • (p. 28) ⭐ You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
  • (p. 87) Stop thinking about your environment as filled with objects. Start thinking about it as filled with relationships.
  • (p. 110) The habit stacking + temptation building formula is:
    1. After [current habit], I will [habit I need].
    2. After [habit I need], I will [habit I want].
  • (p. 130) You don’t “have” to do X. You get to do X.
  • (p. 142) The best is the enemy of the good.
  • (p. 190) ⭐ The last mile is always the least crowded.
  • (p. 200) Never lapse twice. “I can’t be perfect, but I can avoid a second lapse. As soon as one streak ends, I get started on the next one.”
  • (p. 200) ⭐ Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.
  • (p. 224) ⭐ The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
  • (p. 227) Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.
  • (p. 235) You have to fall in love with boredom.
  • (p. 240) Habits + Deliberate Practice = Mastery
  • (p. 249) The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.
  • (p. 263) ⭐ Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.