“Are you spending less than you earn? Are you making it into the gym each week? Are you reading books and learning something new each day? Tiny battles like these are the ones that will define your future self.”
“The aggregation of marginal gains.”
A philosophy where you break down an activity into all the tiny sections. Then improve all parts by 1% and when you put them back together there will be a significant increase.
“It’s the accumulation of many missteps — a 1% decline here and there — that eventually leads to a problem.”
“These improvements were minor, but they have me a sense of control over my life. Keep a tidy room, sleep early, build on study habits and exercise habits.”
“Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results.”
“The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our habits.”
“Human behavior is always changing: situation to situation, moment to moment.”
“A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in direction.”
“Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it.”
“Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.”
“It doesn’t matter how successful or unsuccessful you are right now. What matters is whether your habits are putting you on the path towards success. You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with current results.”
- Example: A millionaire spending over his budget every month → bad trajectory → bankrupt
- Whereas a person in debt who’s saving money monthly → good trajectory → one day financial freedom
“Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your learning habits. Your clutter is a lagging measure of your cleaning habits. You get what you repeat.”
“That’s how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.” — Warren Buffett
“All big things come from small beginnings.”
“Habits often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold and unlock a new level of performance.”
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stone-cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack in it. Yet at a hundred and one times, it splits. I know it was not that last blow that did it — but all that had gone before.” — NBA
“People make a few small changes, fail to see a tangible result, and decide to stop. But in order to make a meaningful difference, habits need to persist long enough to break through this plateau. (Plateau of latent potential).”
“Set specific, actionable, goals.”
“The outside world only sees the most dramatic event rather than all that preceded it.”
“Change can take years before it happens all at once. Mastery requires patience.”
“Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.”
“Goals are good for setting direction, but systems are best for making progress.”
“If successful and unsuccessful people share the same goal, then the goal cannot be what differentiates the winners from the losers.”
“The goal had always been there. It was when they implemented a system of continuous small improvements that they achieved a different outcome.”
“After achieving a goal you’ll be hoping for another burst of motivation. You’re left chasing the same outcome because you never changed the system behind it. You treated a symptom without addressing the sickness.”
