Habits

Systems beat goals. on building, maintaining and editing 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. Substitute, Don’t Subtract: How to Break a Habit
  7. Start Laughably Small
  8. The One Minute Rule for Habits That Stick
  9. The Tardigrade Test: How to Build Habits That Last
  10. Why Some Habits Stick: 12 Tardigrade Traits
  11. The Minimalist Philosophy of a Jellyfish
  12. The Cure For Anxiety Is Doing More Of It
  13. Mental Toughness via Meditation
  14. How Meditation Eats Stress
  15. The Optimization Trap That Broke My Meditation Habit
  16. Ray Dalio’s 42-Year Daily Habit
  17. Habits of Great Writers, Founders and Investors
  18. The Habit Range System
  19. How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough
  20. How I Build Habits That Don’t Break
  21. How to Make Habits Stick When Life Pushes Back
  22. I Had Too Many Habits. Here’s What Saved Me.
  23. Why I Went to the Gym at Midnight (The Streak Method)
  24. Why Good Habits Get Boring
  25. Why Achieving Goals Doesn’t Make You Happy
  26. What 2,000 Days of Building in Public Proved
  27. Why Rest Days Made Everything Harder
  28. I Stopped Taking Rest Days. The Binges Started.
  29. Moving Averages for Life
  30. Most Habit Trackers Miss the Point
  31. Get More Done by Counting What You Finish
  32. Eat The Frog Last
  33. The Morning Habits That Stick (Why Order Matters)
  34. Your Morning Habits Work. The Order Doesn’t.
  35. Compound Lifts
  36. Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem
  37. The Atomic Ivy Lee Method
  38. Force Ranking
  39. The Resistance Rule
  40. The Replay Protocol
  41. How I Review a Year in One Hour
  42. Words Are Software
  43. Friction is the Feature
  44. How I Use a Paper To-Do List to Finish What Actually Matters
  45. Why I Rewrite My Principles by Hand
  46. Think on Paper to Keep Your Principles Sharp
  47. Don’t Hard-Code Trauma: How to Let Go of the Past
  48. How I Get Business Ideas
  49. How to Get Startup Ideas: Build the “Dumb” One First
  50. Is It Necessary?
  51. I Deleted Social Media. Here’s What I Kept.
  52. The One-Hour Trap
  53. Why I Check Email Once a Week
  54. The Sound That Trained Me to Overwork
  55. The Hidden Cost of Moving: Decision Fatigue
  56. Not Perfect, But Better
  57. The Hidden Cost of Unreliability
  58. Climb to See the Next Peak
  59. Simplicity Through Intensity
  60. Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
  61. Do Less, Get Better: I Removed a Good Chapter
  62. Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
  63. How to Close a Chapter Without Regret