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 One Minute Rule for Habits That Stick
  10. The Tardigrade Test: How to Build Habits That Last
  11. Why Some Habits Stick: 12 Tardigrade Traits
  12. The Minimalist Philosophy of a Jellyfish
  13. The Cure For Anxiety Is Doing More Of It
  14. Mental Toughness via Meditation
  15. Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator
  16. How Meditation Eats Stress
  17. The Optimization Trap That Broke My Meditation Habit
  18. Ray Dalio’s 42-Year Daily Habit
  19. An AI Named the One Trait That Predicts Success
  20. Habits of Great Writers, Founders and Investors
  21. The Habit Range System
  22. How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough
  23. How I Build Habits That Don’t Break
  24. How to Make Habits Stick When Life Pushes Back
  25. I Had Too Many Habits. Here’s What Saved Me.
  26. Your Habits Are Your Investment Portfolio
  27. Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
  28. Anti-Habits: The Discipline of Saying No
  29. Why I Can’t Drink a Latte (and Billionaires Pay No Tax)
  30. I Optimized My Habits Until They Broke
  31. The Navy Cured Scurvy. Then It Uncured It.
  32. Why I Went to the Gym at Midnight (The Streak Method)
  33. Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100
  34. Your Habits Are Only as Strong as Your Worst Day
  35. The Map Is Not the Territory (And Why That’s Fine)
  36. Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
  37. Why Good Habits Get Boring
  38. Why Achieving Goals Doesn’t Make You Happy
  39. What 2,000 Days of Building in Public Proved
  40. Why Rest Days Made Everything Harder
  41. I Stopped Taking Rest Days. The Binges Started.
  42. The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
  43. Moving Averages for Life
  44. Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
  45. Most Habit Trackers Miss the Point
  46. Get More Done by Counting What You Finish
  47. Eat The Frog Last
  48. The Morning Habits That Stick (Why Order Matters)
  49. Your Morning Habits Work. The Order Doesn’t.
  50. Compound Lifts
  51. Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem
  52. You’re Not Lazy. The Step Is Too Steep.
  53. The Atomic Ivy Lee Method
  54. Force Ranking
  55. The Resistance Rule
  56. The Replay Protocol
  57. 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
  58. How I Review a Year in One Hour
  59. Words Are Software
  60. Friction is the Feature
  61. How I Use a Paper To-Do List to Finish What Actually Matters
  62. Why I Rewrite My Principles by Hand
  63. Think on Paper to Keep Your Principles Sharp
  64. Don’t Hard-Code Trauma: How to Let Go of the Past
  65. How I Get Business Ideas
  66. How to Get Startup Ideas: Build the “Dumb” One First
  67. Is It Necessary?
  68. I Deleted Social Media. Here’s What I Kept.
  69. The One-Hour Trap
  70. Why I Check Email Once a Week
  71. The Sound That Trained Me to Overwork
  72. The Hidden Cost of Moving: Decision Fatigue
  73. Not Perfect, But Better
  74. The Hidden Cost of Unreliability
  75. Climb to See the Next Peak
  76. Simplicity Through Intensity
  77. Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
  78. The $4.6 Billion Lesson in Not Rushing
  79. Do Less, Get Better: I Removed a Good Chapter
  80. Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
  81. The NBA Deleted a Shot. Your Habit Needs the Same.
  82. Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
  83. Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
  84. How to Close a Chapter Without Regret