Habits

Systems beat goals. Build, maintain and edit the daily habits that compound into results.

Chapters

  1. Why 1% Better Isn’t Enough
  2. Consistent But No Progress? It’s the Hurdle Rate
  3. To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
  4. Why Comfort Will Ruin Your Life: The Turkey Problem
  5. Willpower Is Finite (How to Do Hard Things Anyway)
  6. My Cold Shower Got Better. My Business Didn’t.
  7. Substitute, Don’t Subtract: How to Break a Habit
  8. Start Laughably Small
  9. The Con I Run on Myself to Start Working
  10. The One Minute Rule for Habits That Stick
  11. The Tardigrade Test: How to Build Habits That Last
  12. Why Some Habits Stick: 12 Tardigrade Traits
  13. The Minimalist Philosophy of a Jellyfish
  14. The Cure For Anxiety Is Doing More Of It
  15. Mental Toughness via Meditation
  16. Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator
  17. Madam C.J. Walker: $1.25 to 20,000 Agents
  18. Chase Risk Before It Chases You
  19. How Meditation Eats Stress
  20. The Optimization Trap That Broke My Meditation Habit
  21. Ray Dalio’s 42-Year Daily Habit
  22. An AI Named the One Trait That Predicts Success
  23. Habits of Great Writers, Founders and Investors
  24. The Habit Range System
  25. How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough
  26. How I Build Habits That Don’t Break
  27. How to Make Habits Stick When Life Pushes Back
  28. I Had Too Many Habits. Here’s What Saved Me.
  29. Your Habits Are Your Investment Portfolio
  30. Work-Life Balance Is a Myth. Choose Your Table.
  31. You’re in a Status Game Whether You Entered or Not
  32. Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
  33. Anti-Habits: The Discipline of Saying No
  34. The 10pm Rule I Failed for Two Years
  35. Why I Can’t Drink a Latte (and Billionaires Pay No Tax)
  36. I Optimized My Habits Until They Broke
  37. Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
  38. Your Habits Have a Hurdle Rate
  39. I Pay 34 Minutes a Day for My Business to Grow
  40. The Navy Cured Scurvy. Then It Uncured It.
  41. The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
  42. 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
  43. Why I Went to the Gym at Midnight (The Streak Method)
  44. One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
  45. Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100
  46. Your Habits Are Only as Strong as Your Worst Day
  47. The Map Is Not the Territory (And Why That’s Fine)
  48. Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
  49. Patagonia’s 5-Word Policy for Getting Work Done
  50. How to Focus on One Thing All Day
  51. Why Good Habits Get Boring
  52. Why Achieving Goals Doesn’t Make You Happy
  53. What 2,000 Days of Building in Public Proved
  54. Why Rest Days Made Everything Harder
  55. I Stopped Taking Rest Days. The Binges Started.
  56. The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
  57. The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
  58. Moving Averages for Life
  59. Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
  60. Most Habit Trackers Miss the Point
  61. Get More Done by Counting What You Finish
  62. The Tater Tots Trick for Repurposing Content
  63. Eat The Frog Last
  64. The Morning Habits That Stick (Why Order Matters)
  65. Your Morning Habits Work. The Order Doesn’t.
  66. Compound Lifts
  67. Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem
  68. You’re Not Lazy. The Step Is Too Steep.
  69. The Atomic Ivy Lee Method
  70. Force Ranking
  71. The Resistance Rule
  72. The Replay Protocol
  73. 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
  74. How I Review a Year in One Hour
  75. Words Are Software
  76. Friction is the Feature
  77. How I Use a Paper To-Do List to Finish What Actually Matters
  78. Why I Rewrite My Principles by Hand
  79. Think on Paper to Keep Your Principles Sharp
  80. Don’t Hard-Code Trauma: How to Let Go of the Past
  81. How I Get Business Ideas
  82. How to Get Startup Ideas: Build the “Dumb” One First
  83. Is It Necessary?
  84. I Deleted Social Media. Here’s What I Kept.
  85. The One-Hour Trap
  86. Why I Check Email Once a Week
  87. The Sound That Trained Me to Overwork
  88. The Hidden Cost of Moving: Decision Fatigue
  89. Proximity Is Power. Here’s the Math.
  90. Not Perfect, But Better
  91. The Hidden Cost of Unreliability
  92. Climb to See the Next Peak
  93. Simplicity Through Intensity
  94. Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
  95. The $4.6 Billion Lesson in Not Rushing
  96. Do Less, Get Better: I Removed a Good Chapter
  97. Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
  98. The NBA Deleted a Shot. Your Habit Needs the Same.
  99. Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
  100. The 3% Mortgage Debate Is Really About Sleep
  101. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Isn’t About Sleep. Ask Hermès.
  102. Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
  103. How to Close a Chapter Without Regret