so often these choices that you make
through these little 1% improvements for
you or against you each day and are very
easy to overlook what really is the
difference between eating a burger and
fries or a South chicken for lunch
habits that are immediately satisfying
you’re more likely to be repeated and so
pretty much any behavior produces meal
times across time right like if you eat
a doughnut right now it’s tasty it’s
sure good but in the long run you gain
weight and so the the immediate outcome
is favorable the long-term outcome is
unavailable with good habits of stop and
reverse I’d like to go to the gym right
now and it takes effort you sweat you
have to work are the immediate outcomes
unfavorable but the ultimate outcome of
your achievement even though you know
year or month or whatever is favorable
and so the challenge for building good
habits break balance is often finding a
way to pull the long term consequences
of your bad habits in the immediate
moment so you feel a little bit the pain
right now
and the long-term rewards of your good
habits into the immediate moment so you
have a reason to repeat it again in the
future the ultimate form of immediate
gratification is the reinforcement of
your desired identity so you go to the
gym and you’re reinforcing the identity
of I’m the type of person who doesn’t
miss workouts or you show up you’re
right you’re reinforcing the identity of
I’m someone who writes every day and so
you get a little bit of immediate
satisfaction from being that person and
being aligned with your identity your
values your principles but you also get
the long-term rewards from showing up
every day and so when you don’t want is
some kind of immediate reinforcement
like eating a doughnut at the gym where
you’re casting votes for two different
identities right it’s like when I showed
up in the gym I’m casting the vote for
being the type of person who doesn’t
miss workouts the type of person is
healthy but then I eat a doughnut so now
I’m casting a vote for being an
unhealthy person so if they don’t
anxious out yeah right so you want you
want reinforcements that a lot
I think that your habits are the waiting
you embody and identity right select
each time you make your bed you embody
the identity of someone who is clean and
organized each time you go to the gym
you embody the identity of someone who’s
fit each time you sit down the right you
embody the identity of a writer so you
sort of think of it as like each
behavior casts a vote for the type of
person that you want to become and if
you cast enough votes for that type of
identity you start to believe that about
yourself right like if you you go to
church for 20 years you believe your
religious study Spanish every Tuesday
for 30 minutes you believe that you’re
studious so in that way your habits
provide evidence of your desired
identity and I think that that is
probably the ultimate reason that habits
are so important it’s true like how this
can help you earn more money or be more
productive or lose weight and all that
sounds great but in addition to the
external results that habits provide
they also shame your sense of self
they like are the act the engine or the
Avenue through which you learn to
believe things about yourself like
sometimes people will say stuff like
fake it till you make but fake it till
you make it is asking yourself to
believe so
for it and you can do that for a little
while you can do it for day or a week
but eventually I mean there’s a word for
police that don’t have evidence but the
delusion right and if you’re deluding
yourself then eventually you give up on
that but the power doing it a better
habit each day or casting but a little
vote for that type of person is that now
you have evidence group or belief
often when we set about to change
something or to achieve something the
first step is always setting a goal and
this is coming from someone like I was
very cold for a long time right I got an
asset yeah set goals from things I
wanted to do and sports the goal is that
grades in one class the goals for how
much money I want to make my business
and sometimes I would achieve those but
then sometimes I would so I had this
question like well clearly I’m setting
goals for both so like that can’t be the
thing that determines it you see this a
lot that be the winners and losers in a
particular domain often have the same
goals like every Olympian must win a
gold medal
sure every job candidate wants to get
the job so if the winners and the losers
have the same the same home that the
goal cannot be the thing that
distinguishes and the thing that
distinguishes them is the process
assistant line
it is also important because achieving a
goal often only changes your life at the
moment it’s like you know say your
and just take like a simple example say
you have a messy room you know and you
say you get motivated
well you can do that in our
but if you don’t change the sloppy
habits that led to a messy room in the
first place
then you just end up with a dirty room
again yeah so it’s like treating a
symptom without treating the cause and
habits are a better solution in that
case because if you fix the inputs the
outputs fix themselves automatically
right you don’t have to fight to have a
clean room if you have clean habits and
I think that’s true in a larger sense as
well right now but what outcomes they
want to earn more money or lose weights
or be more productive or reduce stress
but the outcome is not the thing that
needs to change it’s the system that
precedes it [Music]
through these little 1% improvements for
you or against you each day and are very
easy to overlook what really is the
difference between eating a burger and
fries or a South chicken for lunch
habits that are immediately satisfying
you’re more likely to be repeated and so
pretty much any behavior produces meal
times across time right like if you eat
a doughnut right now it’s tasty it’s
sure good but in the long run you gain
weight and so the the immediate outcome
is favorable the long-term outcome is
unavailable with good habits of stop and
reverse I’d like to go to the gym right
now and it takes effort you sweat you
have to work are the immediate outcomes
unfavorable but the ultimate outcome of
your achievement even though you know
year or month or whatever is favorable
and so the challenge for building good
habits break balance is often finding a
way to pull the long term consequences
of your bad habits in the immediate
moment so you feel a little bit the pain
right now
and the long-term rewards of your good
habits into the immediate moment so you
have a reason to repeat it again in the
future the ultimate form of immediate
gratification is the reinforcement of
your desired identity so you go to the
gym and you’re reinforcing the identity
of I’m the type of person who doesn’t
miss workouts or you show up you’re
right you’re reinforcing the identity of
I’m someone who writes every day and so
you get a little bit of immediate
satisfaction from being that person and
being aligned with your identity your
values your principles but you also get
the long-term rewards from showing up
every day and so when you don’t want is
some kind of immediate reinforcement
like eating a doughnut at the gym where
you’re casting votes for two different
identities right it’s like when I showed
up in the gym I’m casting the vote for
being the type of person who doesn’t
miss workouts the type of person is
healthy but then I eat a doughnut so now
I’m casting a vote for being an
unhealthy person so if they don’t
anxious out yeah right so you want you
want reinforcements that a lot
I think that your habits are the waiting
you embody and identity right select
each time you make your bed you embody
the identity of someone who is clean and
organized each time you go to the gym
you embody the identity of someone who’s
fit each time you sit down the right you
embody the identity of a writer so you
sort of think of it as like each
behavior casts a vote for the type of
person that you want to become and if
you cast enough votes for that type of
identity you start to believe that about
yourself right like if you you go to
church for 20 years you believe your
religious study Spanish every Tuesday
for 30 minutes you believe that you’re
studious so in that way your habits
provide evidence of your desired
identity and I think that that is
probably the ultimate reason that habits
are so important it’s true like how this
can help you earn more money or be more
productive or lose weight and all that
sounds great but in addition to the
external results that habits provide
they also shame your sense of self
they like are the act the engine or the
Avenue through which you learn to
believe things about yourself like
sometimes people will say stuff like
fake it till you make but fake it till
you make it is asking yourself to
believe so
for it and you can do that for a little
while you can do it for day or a week
but eventually I mean there’s a word for
police that don’t have evidence but the
delusion right and if you’re deluding
yourself then eventually you give up on
that but the power doing it a better
habit each day or casting but a little
vote for that type of person is that now
you have evidence group or belief
often when we set about to change
something or to achieve something the
first step is always setting a goal and
this is coming from someone like I was
very cold for a long time right I got an
asset yeah set goals from things I
wanted to do and sports the goal is that
grades in one class the goals for how
much money I want to make my business
and sometimes I would achieve those but
then sometimes I would so I had this
question like well clearly I’m setting
goals for both so like that can’t be the
thing that determines it you see this a
lot that be the winners and losers in a
particular domain often have the same
goals like every Olympian must win a
gold medal
sure every job candidate wants to get
the job so if the winners and the losers
have the same the same home that the
goal cannot be the thing that
distinguishes and the thing that
distinguishes them is the process
assistant line
it is also important because achieving a
goal often only changes your life at the
moment it’s like you know say your
and just take like a simple example say
you have a messy room you know and you
say you get motivated
well you can do that in our
but if you don’t change the sloppy
habits that led to a messy room in the
first place
then you just end up with a dirty room
again yeah so it’s like treating a
symptom without treating the cause and
habits are a better solution in that
case because if you fix the inputs the
outputs fix themselves automatically
right you don’t have to fight to have a
clean room if you have clean habits and
I think that’s true in a larger sense as
well right now but what outcomes they
want to earn more money or lose weights
or be more productive or reduce stress
but the outcome is not the thing that
needs to change it’s the system that
precedes it [Music]
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