UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship

Attack Bad Habits with Inconvenience and/or Pain Once battlegrounds are identified, you can attack your bad habits. How?

A growth mindset is how Josh Waitzkin goes from a chess champion to a champion in martial arts. It’s how I go from knowing nothing about programming to coding a web application. A growth mindset knows where challenge lies and accepts the Kaizen Principle (and the process-principle) as part of the build. The Kaizen Principle is to endeavor to create

new skills can be acquired and mastered regardless of your current level of talent or intelligence.

Identify the Daily Action Target

Modify Expectations and Realign the Source of Difficulty

Real, permanent change does NOT come from event idealism or from shortcuts. It comes from a daily, regimented process woven into the fabric of your life, automatic and nearly instinctual.

leveraging your natural human instinct to seek the path of least resistance. Put the shortcut scam in your corner by turning bad habits into a royal pain in the ass. Make them invasive. Inconvenient, and with no shortcuts.

CHANGE ADVERSITY: WHY REFUSING CHANGE IS REFUSING EXCELLENCE

Never praise talent or ability, either for yourself or for a child. Instead, praise the process-principle. Praise improvements, habits, growth, and efforts. Praise how far you’ve come, and one day, you’ll praise your results.