A piece of wisdom from
September 27, 2021 · Monday
The quote
“The most successful people I have studied had a clear top-level goal and a hierarchy of mid- and low-level goals that all served the top one. The grit was structural, not heroic.”
— Angela Duckworth · Mental Toughness
The concept
Atomic Habits
Tiny changes. Remarkable results.
You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems. Atomic Habits is the science of how identity, environment, and four laws of behaviour change combine to make small actions compound into a different person, …
A practice for today
When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of Atomic Habits. Tiny changes. Remarkable results.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 4.8
परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम्। धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे॥
“For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and to re-establish dharma, I am born age after age.”
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