"10 Life-changing Quotes About Habits by @Naval Ravikant" ππ§ββοΈπͺπΊπ
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"Humans are basically habit machines.
I think learning how to break habits is actually a very important meta-skill and can serve you in life almost better than anything else."
"Habits are good.
Habits can allow you to background process certain things so that your neocortex, your frontal lobe, stays available to solve brand new problems."
"When building habits, choose consistency over content.
The best book is the one you canβt put down.
The best exercise is the one you enjoy doing every day.
The best health food is the one you find tasty.
The best work is the work youβd do for free."
"Changing habits:
Pick one thing.
Cultivate a desire.
Visualize it.
Plan a sustainable path.
Identify needs, triggers, & substitutes.
Tell your friends.
Track meticulously.
Self-discipline is a bridge to a new self-image.
Bake in the new self-image.
Itβs who you are, now."
"Breaking habits is a skill, and it is something you can learn.
Start with a small habit and try different techniques to break it.
Try substituting.
Try going cold turkey.
Try weaning yourself off. π
Try social proof by telling other people that youβre going to break the habit.
Try putting other habits around it that leave no time for that habit.
Try removing the triggers.
Try toning down the rewards.
Do whatever it takes but break one bad habit this year."
"All the benefits in life come from compound interest - relationship, money, habits - anything of importance."
"Although you can read tons of books on it (changing habits), the reality is youβre never going to learn how to break bad habits until you just break them."
"One thing I try to do is I try to break a bad habit every six months, and I try and pick up a good habit every six months to year."
"To some extent, our attitude in life, our mood, our happiness levels, depression levels, these are also habits."
"Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate.
Build, sell, write, create, invest, and own.
Read, reflect, love, seek truth, and ignore society.
Make these habits.
Say no to everything else.
Avoid debt, jail, addiction, disgrace, shortcuts, and media.
Relax.
Victory is assured.
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"Eisenhower Decision Matrix"
(A Simple and Powerful Tool for Prioritizing Your Time β³)
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The Eisenhower Decision Matrix is a powerful tool for prioritizing your time and unlocking growth in your career, startup, business, relationships, or life.
A thread on how it works and how it can change your life:
Dwight D. Eisenhower was an American military officer and politician.
He was a five-star general in the United States Army and the first Supreme Commander of NATO.
After his military career, he was elected as the 34th President of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961.
"4 Psychological Reasons You Feel Inadequate All the Time" π’
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Do you often feel inadequate, like youβre not good enough or unworthy?
Whatever caused your inadequacy initially, in this thread, Iβm going to walk you through a handful of subtle habits that are keeping you stuck feeling inadequate all the time:
1. Your emotional expectations are unrealistic
a major source of feeling inadequate and unhappy comes from our expectations of ourselves.
When your emotional expectations are unrealistic, you end up feeling bad about feeling bad, which is what really makes us feel inadequate.
I am going to suggest that he is successful not because his visions are grand, not because he is extraordinarily smart and not because he works incredibly hard.
All of those things are true.
But the one major important distinction that sets him apart is his "inability to consider failure".