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A Guide to Becoming the Best Possible Version of Yourself, One Tiny Habit at a Timeby Tynan |
“The glorious benefit of a habit is that it converts something that requires a lot of willpower and focus into something that becomes automatic and often outside of our conscious thought.”TYNAN |
BIG IDEA
What Is a Habit?
FROM THE BOOK“A habit is an outfit a nun wears.
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Also, it’s an action that you take on a repeated basis with little or no required effort or thought. The power of a habit lies in the second part of that definition–the bit about no required effort or thought. It’s a loophole that allows you to upgrade your health, quality of life, productivity, and enjoyment of the world with a fixed expenditure of energy in creating a habit, rather than an ongoing drain on your willpower.
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This is the engine that drives the people we most admire: those people who consistently seem to excel at their work, stay healthy, stay connected to those around them, and do all of this while remaining calm and happy. The easy explanation for their success is to say that they’re somehow built differently or better than the rest of us, but if they are, it’s only because of one key thing: they are better at building and sustaining new habits.”
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Brian's Notes
There ya go.
A habit = “an action that you take on a repeated basis with little or no required effort or thought.”
It’s the secret sauce to superhuman abilities.
I remember the first time I read Robin Sharma’s Greatness Guide (awesome book, btw). The most powerful passage in the whole book for me was this simple line: “Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.”
Robin tells us that the great ones are incredibly (!) consistent on their fundamentals. Of course, the specific practices will be different for an athlete vs. an artist vs. a CEO vs. … but they ALL have mastery on the fundamentals in their lives.
Pretty much exactly what Tynan’s pointing out.
Their engine = their habits.
Here’s a little more on the importance of consistency:
Big Ideas
01: WHAT IS A HABIT?
02: CONSISTENCY
03: NEW VS. OLD
04: DON’T MISS A DAY
05: NEVER SKIP TWICE
“Replacing just a few key negative habits with a few positive habits can easily be the difference between being mostly unhappy and being happy almost all of the time.”TYNAN |
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