Systems beat goals. on building, maintaining and editing the daily habits that compound into results.
Chapters
- Why 1% Better Isn’t Enough
- Willpower Is Finite (How to Do Hard Things Anyway)
- Start Laughably Small
- The Tardigrade Test: How to Build Habits That Last
- Why Some Habits Stick: 12 Tardigrade Traits
- The Minimalist Philosophy of a Jellyfish
- The Cure For Anxiety Is Doing More Of It
- Mental Toughness via Meditation
- How Meditation Eats Stress
- The Optimization Trap That Broke My Meditation Habit
- Ray Dalio’s 42-Year Daily Habit
- The Habit Range System
- How I Build Habits That Don’t Break
- I Had Too Many Habits. Here’s What Saved Me.
- Why I Went to the Gym at Midnight (The Streak Method)
- What 2,000 Days of Building in Public Proved
- Why Rest Days Made Everything Harder
- Moving Averages for Life
- Most Habit Trackers Miss the Point
- Eat The Frog Last
- The Morning Habits That Stick (Why Order Matters)
- Compound Lifts
- The Atomic Ivy Lee Method
- Force Ranking
- The Resistance Rule
- The Replay Protocol
- How I Review a Year in One Hour
- Words Are Software
- Friction is the Feature
- How I Use a Paper To-Do List to Finish What Actually Matters
- Why I Rewrite My Principles by Hand
- How I Get Business Ideas
- Is It Necessary?
- I Deleted Social Media. Here’s What I Kept.
- The One-Hour Trap
- Why I Check Email Once a Week
- The Sound That Trained Me to Overwork
- The Hidden Cost of Moving: Decision Fatigue
- Not Perfect, But Better
- The Hidden Cost of Unreliability
- Climb to See the Next Peak
- Simplicity Through Intensity
- Do Less, Get Better: I Removed a Good Chapter
- How to Close a Chapter Without Regret