3 IDEAS FROM ME
I.
A simple reminder from Atomic Habits:
“Walk slowly, but never backward.”
II.
“Look around your environment.
Rather than seeing items as objects, see them as magnets for your attention. Each object gently pulls a certain amount of your attention toward it.
Whenever you discard something, the tug of that object is released. You get some attention back.”
III.
“Powerful combination = Hate being bad at stuff + Willing to look like a beginner.
People who hate being bad at stuff are driven to improve. However, if they are unwilling to look like a beginner from time to time, they will avoid new challenges and struggle to reinvent themselves.
Meanwhile, people who are willing to try new things, but lack a thirst to improve will settle for mediocre results.
It’s the willingness to look foolish for a short time—but not for a long time—that leads to jumps in performance.”
2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I.
Writer Jenée Desmond-Harris on how to divide your to-do list:
“I started dividing my to-do list into 1) things I have to do, 2) things I want to do, and 3) things other people want me to do. Life changing! I often don’t get to #3 and I finally realized… this is what it means to have boundaries.”
Source: Twitter
II.
Poet and novelist Margaret Atwood on the universal nature of writing:
“Everyone writes in a way; that is, each person has a “story,” a personal narrative which is constantly being replayed, revised, taken apart, and put together again. The significant points in this narrative change as a person ages—what may have been tragedy at twenty is seen as comedy or nostalgia at forty. All children write. (And paint, and sing.) I suppose the real question is why do so many people give it up?”
Source: Women at Work: Interviews from the Paris Review
1 QUESTION FOR YOU
What is a small, but courageous choice you can make today?
Until next week,
James Clear
Author of the #1 worldwide bestseller, Atomic Habits
Creator of the Habit Journal
