The Habit Loop
Every habit, broken into the same four-stage loop. Identify the loop running you, then redesign one stage to change the whole thing.
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Every habit, broken into the same four-stage loop. Identify the loop running you, then redesign one stage to change the whole thing.
Tiny edges compound. The opposite is also true — a 1% daily decline collapses to almost nothing in twelve months.
Don't set goals for the outcomes. Decide who you want to be, then build the systems that vote for that identity.
Apply the four to build a habit. Invert the four to break one. Works on humans, dogs, and yourself.
Most of life runs on System 1 — automatic and emotional. System 2 is the lazy supervisor who steps in only when something feels off.
Sort your work by cognitive depth. The bottom of the list — deep work — is what compounds; the top is what loudly demands attention.
Three discontinuities re-wrote what humans are: language, surplus, and the admission of ignorance. We're still living in the third.
Six shortcuts the brain uses when it doesn't want to think. Each one is armor when you spot it, leverage when you wield it.
The pull to return a favor is one of the strongest forces in human exchange — and it does not care whether the favor was asked for.
The arc of growing up: from "you take care of me", to "I take care of me", to "we take care of each other".
Most days are spent in Q1 (urgent + important) or Q3 (urgent + unimportant). Q2 — important but not urgent — is where life is actually built.