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title:: Books/Atomic Habits icon:: 📖 purchased:: Oct 17th, 2022 start:: Oct 17th, 2022 end:: published:: length:: author:: @James Clear cover:: - #progsum - Identity Based Habits - There are three layers of behavior change: a change in your outcomes, a change in your processes, or a change in your identity. The first layer is changing - Outcomes are about what you get. Processes are about what you do. Identity is about what you believe. - The problem is the direction of change. - - Random Highlights - You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. #quotes - My proposition is that if you study people who succeed, you will see that most of them follow systems, not goals. - The minimum requirement of a system is that a reasonable person expects it to work more often than not. Buying lottery tickets is not a system no matter how regularly you do it. - I have a friend who is a gifted salesman. He could have sold anything, from houses to toasters. The field he chose allows him to sell a service that almost always auto-renews. In other words, he can sell his service once and enjoy ongoing commissions until the customer dies or goes out of business. - What I see is a man who accurately identified his skill set and chose a system that vastly increased his odds of getting “lucky.” - How much passion does this fellow have for his chosen field? Answer: zero. What he has is a spectacular system, and that beats passion every time. - My system of creating something the public wants and reproducing it in large quantities nearly guaranteed a string of failures. By design, all of my efforts were long shots. Had I been goal oriented instead of system oriented, I imagine I would have given up after the first several failures. It would have felt like banging my head against a brick wall. But being systems oriented, I felt myself growing more capable every day, no matter the fate of the project I happened to be working on. - And every day during those years I woke up with the same thought, literally, as I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and slapped the alarm clock off. Today’s the day. - If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. Successful people don’t wish for success; they decide to pursue it. And to pursue it effectively, they need a system. Success always has a price, but the reality is that the price is negotiable. - My proposition is that if you study people who succeed, you will see that most of them follow systems, not goals. - The minimum requirement of a system is that a reasonable person expects it to work more often than not. Buying lottery tickets is not a system no matter how regularly you do it. - I have a friend who is a gifted salesman. He could have sold anything, from houses to toasters. The field he chose allows him to sell a service that almost always auto-renews. In other words, he can sell his service once and enjoy ongoing commissions until the customer dies or goes out of business. - What I see is a man who accurately identified his skill set and chose a system that vastly increased his odds of getting “lucky.” - How much passion does this fellow have for his chosen field? Answer: zero. What he has is a spectacular system, and that beats passion every time. - My system of creating something the public wants and reproducing it in large quantities nearly guaranteed a string of failures. By design, all of my efforts were long shots. Had I been goal oriented instead of system oriented, I imagine I would have given up after the first several failures. It would have felt like banging my head against a brick wall. But being systems oriented, I felt myself growing more capable every day, no matter the fate of the project I happened to be working on. - And every day during those years I woke up with the same thought, literally, as I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and slapped the alarm clock off. Today’s the day. - If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. Successful people don’t wish for success; they decide to pursue it. And to pursue it effectively, they need a system. Success always has a price, but the reality is that the price is negotiable.