“People get better at regulating their impulses. They learn how to distract themselves from temptations. And once you’ve gotten into that willpower groove, your brain is practiced at helping you focus on a goal.
“People get better at regulating their impulses. They learn how to distract themselves from temptations. And once you’ve gotten into that willpower groove, your brain is practiced at helping you focus on a goal.
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Just by the nature of the limitations you set, the work will be different from what you’ve done before. It is of little importance whether it’s better. The purpose is self-discovery.
Rules, guidelines, formulas, and algorithms—whatever you call them in the discipline that matters to you—are valuable aids, but adhering to them all the time doesn’t work, either. The key is learning when to obey, and when to defy, and the easiest way to experiment with defiance, paradoxically, is to limit yourself by imposing constraints.
1. Life is a balance of order and chaos. 2. Patterns and contexts are often emergent. Don’t lock yourself into plans before you have enough information. 3. Our actions today impact our choices tomorrow. 4. Pull, flow, and cadence give clarity to how we work and which options are appropriate to select. 5. Push is a blind act. Pull is informed. 6.
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