3 IDEAS FROM ME
I.
“It is not necessary to change a person in order to change their behavior.
Just change their environment.”
II.
“Many problems are minor when you solve them right away, but grow into an enormous conflict when you let them linger.
As a rule of thumb, fix it now.”
III.
“Raise your ambitions. Lower your expectations.
The higher your ambitions, the bolder your actions.
The lower your expectations, the greater your satisfaction.
Achieve more and be happy along the way.”
2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I.
Music teacher and conductor Nadia Boulanger, who trained many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, on focus:
“Anyone who acts without paying attention to what he is doing is wasting his life. I’d go so far as to say life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.”
Source: Mademoiselle: Conversations with Nadia Boulanger
II.
Historian and author, Howard Zinn, on the importance of what you choose to emphasize:
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
Source: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
1 QUESTION FOR YOU
A question from computer programmer Simon Sarris:
“If you have a ten year plan, what’s stopping you from doing it in two?”
Until next week,
James Clear
Author of the #1 worldwide bestseller, Atomic Habits
Creator of the Habit Journal
p.s. Real estate pro tip.
