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. Willpower Is Finite (How to Do Hard Things Anyway)
  4. Substitute, Don’t Subtract: How to Break a Habit
  5. Start Laughably Small
  6. The One Minute Rule for Habits That Stick
  7. The Tardigrade Test: How to Build Habits That Last
  8. Why Some Habits Stick: 12 Tardigrade Traits
  9. The Minimalist Philosophy of a Jellyfish
  10. The Cure For Anxiety Is Doing More Of It
  11. Mental Toughness via Meditation
  12. How Meditation Eats Stress
  13. The Optimization Trap That Broke My Meditation Habit
  14. Ray Dalio’s 42-Year Daily Habit
  15. Habits of Great Writers, Founders and Investors
  16. The Habit Range System
  17. How I Build Habits That Don’t Break
  18. How to Make Habits Stick When Life Pushes Back
  19. I Had Too Many Habits. Here’s What Saved Me.
  20. Why I Went to the Gym at Midnight (The Streak Method)
  21. What 2,000 Days of Building in Public Proved
  22. Why Rest Days Made Everything Harder
  23. Moving Averages for Life
  24. Most Habit Trackers Miss the Point
  25. Eat The Frog Last
  26. The Morning Habits That Stick (Why Order Matters)
  27. Compound Lifts
  28. The Atomic Ivy Lee Method
  29. Force Ranking
  30. The Resistance Rule
  31. The Replay Protocol
  32. How I Review a Year in One Hour
  33. Words Are Software
  34. Friction is the Feature
  35. How I Use a Paper To-Do List to Finish What Actually Matters
  36. Why I Rewrite My Principles by Hand
  37. How I Get Business Ideas
  38. Is It Necessary?
  39. I Deleted Social Media. Here’s What I Kept.
  40. The One-Hour Trap
  41. Why I Check Email Once a Week
  42. The Sound That Trained Me to Overwork
  43. The Hidden Cost of Moving: Decision Fatigue
  44. Not Perfect, But Better
  45. The Hidden Cost of Unreliability
  46. Climb to See the Next Peak
  47. Simplicity Through Intensity
  48. Do Less, Get Better: I Removed a Good Chapter
  49. How to Close a Chapter Without Regret