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True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement.
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18. The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
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The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you will be to maintain the habits associated with it.
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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.
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Quotes from Atomic Habits by James Clear
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Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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As Voltaire once wrote, The best is the enemy of the good.
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We are so focused on figuring out the best approach that we never get around to taking action.
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In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption.
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Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.30 Motivational Quotes from Atomic Habits by James Clear
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If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
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Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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The task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time.
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The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us.
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All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. Quotes from Atomic Habits by James Clear
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