James Clear on the Cycle of Improvement

vutran | June 23, 2020, 5:03 p.m.

"The Cycle of Improvement:

1. Awareness - identify what you need to improve.

2. Deliberate practice - focus your conscious effort on the specific area you want to improve.

3. Habit - with practice, the effortful becomes automatic.

4. Repeat - begin again." 

— James Clear

James Clear on mental toughness

vutran | June 23, 2020, 5:02 p.m.

"Mental toughness is persistence not intensity." 

— James Clear

James Clear on The Paradox of Freedom

vutran | June 23, 2020, 4:59 p.m.

"The Paradox of Freedom:

The way to expand your freedom is to narrow your focus.

Stay focused on saving to achieve financial freedom.

Stay focused on training to achieve physical freedom.

Stay focused on learning to achieve intellectual freedom." 

— James Clear

Proverbs on words fittly spoken

vutran | June 19, 2020, 6:15 p.m.

"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in baskets of silver."

— Proverbs 25:11

Alain de Botton on the enemy of good decisions

vutran | June 16, 2020, 6:03 p.m.

“The chief enemy of good decisions is a lack of sufficient perspectives on a problem.”

— Alain de Botton

Damian Lillard on how to look good in front of thousands

vutran | June 15, 2020, 4:38 p.m.

"If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody." 

— Damian Lillard

James Clear on the reason of self-help revisiting

vutran | June 15, 2020, 4:37 p.m.

"People keep reading self-help and revisiting the same ideas because that’s precisely what we need: to be reminded.

The problem is not that information is unhelpful, but that attention is fleeting.

Nobody focuses on one idea every minute of the day. Good books refocus the mind." 

— James Clear