“Models help us choose where to direct our attention, so we can make decisions, rather than just react.” -Charles Duhigg
“It’s only by making the fundamentals of life easier that you can create the mental space needed for free thinking and creativity.” -James Clear
“This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.” -Charles Duhigg
“When your dreams are vague, it’s easy to rationalize little exceptions all day long and never get around to the specific things you need to do to succeed.” -James Clear
In the following book there are 401 quotes by James Clear, Charles Duhigg and Cal Newport. 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. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
Inspire yourself with the best quotes from Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business and Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World.
In their books there is inspiration from psychologists like Carl Jung, William James, B. F. Skinner, Abraham Maslow and much more.
Some quotes inside this book:
“Motion makes you feel like you’re getting things done. But really, you’re just preparing to get something done. When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.” -James Clear
“One paper published by a Duke University researcher in 2006 found that more than 40 percent of the actions people performed each day weren’t actual decisions, but habits.” -Charles Duhigg
“Does this behavior help me become the type of person I wish to be? Does this habit cast a vote for or against my desired identity?” Habits that reinforce your desired identity are usually good. Habits that conflict with your desired identity are usually bad.” -James Clear
“The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom. We get bored with habits because they stop delighting us. The outcome becomes expected. And as our habits become ordinary, we start derailing our progress to seek novelty.” -James Clear
“Being a little bit nicer in each interaction can result in a network of broad and strong connections over time.” -James Clear
“You need your own philosophy for integrating deep work into your professional life.” -Cal Newport
“If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.” -Charles Duhigg
“Optimize processes, he urged, not people.” -Cal Newport
“If your goal is to love what you do, you must first build up “career capital” by mastering rare and valuable skills, and then cash in this capital for the traits that define great work.” -Cal Newport
“Thoreau demonstrated similar concern, famously writing in Walden that “we are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” -Cal Newport
“Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.” -Cal Newport
“What you do is an indication of the type of person you believe that you are – either consciously or nonconsciously.” -James Clear
“A good player works hard to win the game everyone else is playing. A great player creates a new game that favors their strengths and avoids their weaknesses.” -James Clear
“You don’t have to build the habits everyone tells you to build. Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular.” -James Clear
“Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.” -Charles Duhigg
“Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself. You’ll rise together.” -James Clear
“An internal locus of control emerges when we develop a mental habit of transforming chores into meaningful choices, when we assert that we have authority over our lives.” -Charles Duhigg
“Do What Steve Jobs Did, Not What He Said.” -Cal Newport
“Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.” -James Clear
“The urge to check Twitter or refresh Reddit becomes a nervous twitch that shatters uninterrupted time into shards too small to support the presence necessary for an intentional life.” -Cal Newport
“In an open marketplace for attention, darker emotions attract more eyeballs than positive and constructive thoughts.” -Cal Newport
“We eagerly signed up for what Silicon Valley was selling, but soon realized that in doing so we were accidently degrading our humanity.” -Cal Newport
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