autopilot, you stop thinking about how to do it better.

When you can do it “good enough” on

But then, as a habit becomes automatic, you become less sensitive to feedback. You fall into mindless repetition.

Professionals know what is important to them and work toward it with purpose; amateurs get pulled off course by the urgencies of life.

We all have goals that we would like to achieve and dreams that we would like to fulfill, but it doesn’t matter what you are trying to become better at, if you only do the work when it’s convenient or exciting, then you’ll never be consistent enough to achieve remarkable results.

Variable rewards or not, no habit will stay interesting forever. At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.

The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom.

Mastery requires practice. But the more you practice something, the more boring and routine it becomes.

He mentioned the factors you might expect: genetics, luck, talent. But then he said something I wasn’t expecting: “At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over and over.”