3 IDEAS FROM ME
I.
“When you lose a game, the score doesn't transfer to the next contest but your habits certainly will.
Circumstances are temporary. Sometimes you're winning, sometimes you're losing. Hot, cold. Lucky, unlucky. But your habits travel with you. This is why you want to execute the same way whether the score is 10-0 or 0-10. Not because the score doesn't matter, but because the score isn't what you're actually building.
It's not about winning or losing any given round. It's about doing things the right way. If you have a chance to practice your craft, you want to do it as well as you can (even if you end up losing that day). Your previous reps can save you or betray you. The habits always translate to the next round.”
II.
“When you are creating something, you will usually find that once things appear 90 percent done, you are actually about halfway there. But you have to create the first 90 percent in order to see the half that needs to be revised.”
III.
I recently found this note to myself:
“No sense in thinking small. Don't water down your vision. A remarkable amount can be accomplished if you are willing to think longer term than most and work hard each day.”
2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I.
Ingvar Kamprad, entrepreneur and founder of IKEA, on making mistakes:
“Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active — of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.”
Source: The Testament of a Furniture Dealer (1976).
II.
Economist and philosopher Adam Smith on happiness:
“What can be added to the happiness of a person who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”
Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
1 QUESTION FOR YOU
If your family inherited only your habits (not your things or your money), which ones would be your richest gifts?
Until next week,
James Clear
Author of Atomic Habits
Cofounder of Authors Equity
p.s. I think they are onto me.
