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Your response tends to follow your emotions. Suffering drives progress. Your actions reveal how badly you want something. Reward is on the other side of sacrifice. Self-control is difficult because it is not satisfying. Our expectations determine our satisfaction.

Happiness is simply the absence of desire. It is the idea of pleasure that we chase. Peace occurs when you don't turn your observations into problems. Peace occurs when you don't turn your observations into problems. Peace occurs when you don't turn your observations into problems. Emotions drive behavior. We can only be rational and logical after we have been emotional.

Integrity report as well is the following: what are my core values that drive my life and work. How am I living and working with my integrity now. How can I set a higher standard in the future

To make sure your habit continues to develop ask these three questions: what went well this year? What didn’t go so well this year? Wha did I learn?

Habits are good for allowing you to do things. However over time you will become worse at the thing because habits are automatic. Deliberate practice + habit = mastery

You have to fall in love with boredom. To do that try to get a 50/50 split of success and failure to keep you interested

The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom.

Our genes should tell us what type of game we should play. Aim to do stuff that favours our genes because we are more likely to find that satisfying and continue to build that habit

When the punishment for doing an action comes immediately after and the punishment is more severe than the benefits, the action will not occur multiple times

Goodharts law: when a measurement becomes the target, it ceases to be a good measure