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- Author: Michael Bungay Stanier
Highlights
The more you lose focus, the more overwhelmed you feel. The more overwhelmed you feel, the more you lose focus. — location: 150
theory’s no good if you don’t know how to put it into practice. — location: 180
To build an effective new habit, you need five essential components: a reason, a trigger, a micro-habit, effective practice, and a plan. — location: 194
Research shows that if you spend too much time imagining the outcome, you’re less motivated to actually do the work to get there. — location: 197
Charles Duhigg’s book, The Power of Habit, is this: if you don’t know what triggers the old behaviour, you’ll never change it because you’ll already be doing it before you know it. — location: 202
PLEASE GIVE ME SOME GOOD ADVICE IN YOUR NEXT LETTER. I PROMISE NOT TO FOLLOW IT. Edna St. Vincent Millay — location: 217
The three components of Deep Practice are: Practicing small chunks of the bigger action (for instance, rather than practice the whole tennis serve, you practice just tossing the ball up). Repetition, repetition and repetition… and repetition. Do it fast, do it slow, do it differently. But keep repeating the action. And finally, being mindful and noticing when it goes well. When it does, celebrate success. — location: 213
Ovid said, “Nothing is stronger than habit.” That’s bad news and good news. It’s bad news in that your life can easily be a mass of less-than-ideal responses and reactions that you’ve grooved into your brain. And it’s good news because now that you understand the mechanics of habits, you can build your own structures for success. — location: 266