Atomic Habit - Chapter 18/19/20
- The secret to maximizing your odds of success is to choose the right field of competition.
- when they align with your natural inclinations and abilities.
- Competence is highly dependent on context.
- The key is to direct your effort toward areas that both excite you and match your natural skills, to align with your ambition with your ability.
- Learning to play a game where the odds are in your favor is critical for maintaining motivation and feeling successful.
- not only work hard but also have the good fortune to be exposed to opportunities that favor us.
- Once we realize our strengths, we know where to spend our time and energy.
- Work hard on the things that come easy.
- work on tasks of just manageable difficulty.
- Improvement requires a delicate balance. You need to regularly search for challenges that push you to your edge while continuing to make enough progress to stay motivated. Behaviors need to remain novel in order for them to stay attractive and satisfying. Without variety, we get bored. And boredom is perhaps the greatest villain on the quest for self-improvement.
- This variance leads to the greatest spike of dopamine, enhance memory recall, and accelerates habit formation.
- You need just enough winning to experience satisfaction and just enough wanting to experience desire.
- Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
- The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
- Habit are the backbone of any pursuit of excellence.
- Each habit unlocks the next level of performance. It's an endless cycle.
〈 Vocabulary 〉
▪ propel v. 驅使
▪ conundrum n. 困境；難題
▪ supple a. 柔軟的
▪ brittle a. 脆弱的 is hard but easily broken
▪ complacency n. being complacent about a situation ▪ prevail v. it gains influence or is accepted, often after a struggle or argument
〈 Phrase 〉 ▪ in accordance with: in a way that agrees with or follows (something, such as a rule or request 依據；按照 In accordance with your order, I cancelled the meeting.
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