Hello Habits - Fumio Sasaki

Summary

• In many ways, habits are the secret to other great things like achieving goals, hard work, creativity, good manners and on and on.

How I discovered it

• I really enjoyed Fumio Sasaki's book on minimalism, so i just naturally wanted to read his second work.

How the book changed me

• One of my objectives this year is to work on improving habits, so it has bolstered my resolve.

Details

• Hyperbolic discounting - minimizing future rewards and delayed gratification
• Follow the example of the ant! Go to the ant - hard work without motivation
• Artists and authors often have a daily routine of taking a walk (see book to read: Mason Currey's Daily rituals)
• Exercise beneficial to our brain - I would like to find out a bit more about this idea...
• All things that give excessive rewards are addictive, and these in particular easily become habits
• How Record everything helps to develop habits
• Motivation starts when you start moving
• Make your habits ridiculously small
• We all fall to The superman illusion
• Take time daily to learn something new
• Meet Anthony Trollope - the man who wrote daily for two and a half hours
• Naptime makes you smarter
• The Sechenov Effect - vigorous exercise is better than resting for calming us helps us rest by going into nature
• Give yourself space for thinking
• Intentional practise needed to improve
• Keep changing your habits so you dont get bored.
• Dont be discouraged by seeing experts at work: Genius versus skill accumulation
• Happiness comes when we are otherwise engaged

Quotes

• It isnt talent its continuing - Kyohei Sakaguchi
• Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts - Elbert Hubbard
• Habit is as second nature - Cicero
• Excellence is not an act but a habit - Will Durant
• Miserable human being in whom nothing is habitual but indecision - William James
• Do ordinary things to do something special
• The problem isnt that you dont feel motivated - Oliver Burkeman
• A small daily task will beat a spasmodic Hercules - Anthony Trollope

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