- Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate!
- Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course.
- Enviorment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.
- additions could spontaneously dissolve if thre was a radical change in the environment.
- Perseverance, girt and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were disciplined person, but by creating a more disiciplined environment.
- Once you notice something, you begin to want it.
- sparks desire
- the most practical ways to eliminate a bad habit is to reduce exposre to the cue that cause it.
- muster the willpower to override your desires every time.
- Make the cues of your good habits obvious and the cues of your bad habits invisible.
- People with high self-control tend to spend less time in tempting situations. It's easier to avoid temptation than resist it.
〈 Vocabulary 〉
▪ blockage n. 阻礙
▪ impending a. 即將到來的;逼近的
▪ nudge v./n.
▪ guarded a. 有所保留的;提防的 (careful not to give too much information or show how you really feel)
a guarded response
▪ overhaul v. 改造、維修
I got the engine overhauled.
▪ odds n. the probability
The overall odds of winning a lottery prize are 1 in 13.
▪ engulf v. 包圍;吞沒
▪ devoid a. devoid of
▪ backfire v. 產生適得其反的結果
▪ foster v.
〈 Phrase〉
▪ tipped someone off/ a tip-off (n.)
to give secret information to someone, or to give someone information without intending to
▪ pick up the cues
▪ be on the lookout for someone/something :search
I'm always on the lookout for interesting new recipes.
▪ downward spiral
▪ carve into = engrave
▪ be devoid of something: to lack or be without something that is necessary or usual (缺乏/沒有)
> Their apartment is devoid of all comforts.
> He seems to be devoid of compassion.