3 IDEAS FROM ME
I.
“When you need clarity, subtract.”
II.
“Trust in yourself is not only built through successful repetitions, but also through failed ones.
When you have worked through failures in the past, you fear them less in the future. You know you can bounce back.
Successful repetitions build competence. Failed repetitions build resilience.”
III.
“The negative examples always spread farther and faster than the positive examples. In a world this big, you'll find at least one negative example every day.
Don't let the existence of a bad example ruin your faith in the world. Good news is always quieter than bad news. Good behavior rarely stirs the pot or ignites emotion.
But no matter. We need role models all the same. Continue living the best way you know how.”
2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I.
The poet Rainer Maria Rilke reminds us that the best things in life will also humble us:
“This is how we grow: by being defeated by greater and greater things.”
Source: The Book of Images (1902)
II.
Poet, philosopher, and Nobel Prize winner Paul Valéry encourages us not to imitate the acts of great people, but to carry their spirit forward:
“All great undertakings do not consist of doing again what others have done before, but in recapturing the spirit that went into what they did—and would have done differently in a different age.”
Source: The Collected Works of Paul Valéry (edited lightly for clarity)
1 QUESTION FOR YOU
If your body could vote on your daily schedule, what would it immediately veto?
Until next week,
James Clear
Author of Atomic Habits
Cofounder of Authors Equity
p.s. Please don't be mad…
