Anyone looks like a genius when they’re in a good position, and even the smartest person looks like an idiot when they’re in a bad one.

Jim Rohn said, “One definition of failure is making a few errors in judgment repeated every day.” And a summary of James Clear’s excellent book Atomic Habits is that good habits make time your friend and bad ones make it your enemy.

“99.99 percent of the time waiting for the right moment to do something hard is how you rationalize not doing that hard thing you know you needs to be done. There is no perfect moment. All we have is now. Stop waiting,”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

While animals instinctively mark and defend their territory, I believe this biological instinct manifests itself in humans in a deeper and more nuanced way. We instinctively respond when people encroach on not only our physical territory but also our self-image. Since we wrap our identity into our jobs, when someone criticizes you at work, it’s aki

You’ve trusted me with something far more valuable than the price of this book; you’ve trusted me with your time. I hope your investment in the time to read this pays dividends for years to come. Cheers.

Good judgment can’t be taught, but it can be learned.

The small improvements you make in judgment won’t be felt until they are too large to ignore. Gradually, as the improvements accumulate, you will notice that less of your time is spent fixing problems that shouldn’t exist in the first place. You’ll notice the various parts of your life blending harmoniously together, and you’ll notice that you expe

Managing your defaults requires more than willpower. Defaults operate at our subconscious level, so overriding them requires harnessing equally powerful forces that pull your subconscious in the right direction: habits, rules, and environment. Overriding your defaults requires implementing safeguards that render the invisible visible and that preve