Great success does not require great actions, small steps over a consistent time period are enough. You don’t have to change everything suddenly, negligible changes over a long period are the key. If you improve 1% every day, in a year you will be 36 times better then today. 1% is not that big, right? Anyone can do that. But just imagine a way better version of yourself just in a year. It works like compound interest. You don’t even realize how much you have changed. The opposite is also true, keeping a task for tomorrow does not feel like that big of a deal, but repeating it, again and again, develops a very bad habit of procrastination.

Success is the product of daily habits! but why is it so hard, to develop a good habit, to hit the gym daily, to sit consistently for hours, the thing is habits take time to show results, and when after starting with full enthusiasm and energy, you don’t see the results in few days, you hit the plateau, your motivation dies and you unknowingly give up. But you have to stick! Just for a little longer, because when you will see your first abs there will be no going back. You have to understand, you are not doing anything wrong and just keep doing it daily, with discipline and have faith that results will show up!

The book defines concepts Goals and system, goals are the results you want to archive and the system is the way, the process. Forget about goals and concentrate on the system. Winners and losers both have the same goals, every athlete wants that gold, every entrepreneur wants to be on top, the system they are following are different. You need to love the system because the goals are momentary, you just achieve them once, they are there just for a moment, but the system is where you are every single minute. Getting a good rank is the goal but your 14hour study a day in the system. Goal setting is very easy but sticking to the system is the real deal. It’s all about the system, not goals.

Three Layers of behavior change:

  • Outcome = What you want.
  • Process = What you do.
  • Identity = What you believe.

True behavior change is identity change. Let me explain. if someone wants to be skinny, they think maintaining a good diet will work. Getting skinny is the outcome and maintaining a diet is the process. But if you don’t change your identity, your comfort zone, in this case, eating whatever you feel like, you will not get any results you have to ingrain in your mind that you don’t eat garbage food that’s who you are! Then only things will work because identity is the reason for your current behavior, and if unchanged you will be the same. If a person runs even in snow or rain then he is a runner and it’s not for just one time, he runs, it means he runs no matter what. So a slight shift in mindset, identity will get a change in behavior. This is a really important point, read again if you did not get it.

There is a framework provided in the book for building new habits. The 4 laws of behavior change:

Designing Good Habits.

  1. Make it obvious: Try to find a current habit and attach a new habit to it, like after taking the shower I will meditate.

  2. Make it attractive: Develop a desire of it by combining it with something you like, I will talk to them, only after I have completed this.

  3. Make it easy: Habits are based on frequency, not time, it matters how many times you have done something. Not how much time is passed from the day of goal creation, so your habits should be easy to start like your gym should not take hours to reach

  4. Make it Satisfying: try to find the joy and satisfaction in what you are doing

Breaking bad habits 

  1. Make it invisible: If you are addicted to social media, just uninstall it, or hide it some unusual place.

  2. Make it unattractive: Punish yourself, every time when you repeat your bad habit, do 20 pushups or something, try to find a way by which you start hating that habit.

  3. Make it difficult: Let’s take the example of pubg, just uninstall in every time you play and reinstall when you want to play again. Keep the main file saved on another location to save data, but the process of moving the file back then logging in, again and again, will make your brain really tired and you will lose it easily

  4. Make it unsatisfying: these habits are created just because they are so satisfying, but you need to fight yourself and make it unsatisfying.


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