Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

people who believe their intelligence is fixed and unchanging have a very difficult time learning.

Brilliant things happen for you after you’ve crossed the threshold of decision and commitment. Things seemed to fall into place in almost a mystical manner.

it’s easy to conclude that you are the problem. You must not have what it takes—the grit, the inner strength, the willpower.

The best creative work requires a blend of intensely tight focus for one to four hours, followed by a relaxed mind wandering in a different environment from where you were doing intensely focused work. You need to rotate your environments.

mindfulness is nothing more than awareness of context, as well as awareness of variability or alterations in that context. If you’re mindless, then you don’t notice nuance. You assume everything is black and white. You assume the rules in one environment are the same as the rules in another.

If you play by the same rules as everyone else, your results will be average.

I’ve watched most of the people in my life struggle to change because they’ve put all the pressure on themselves.

Once at the transforming-self stage, you purposefully avoid transactional relationships and seek transformational relationships.

What if you made being in a peak state a priority?