[[Notes]]
- Topics: [[Productivity]]
- People: [[James Clear]]
- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_IN64VV7w
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## Summary
- [[Willingness to action is weakest when triggers or cold]].
- [[Motivation helps you move forward. Discipline keeps you from falling behind.]]
- [[Make it easy to do the right thing. Make it hard to do the wrong thing.]]
- [[Your attention is currency. Often it's a good idea to pay yourself first.]]
- [[Cultivate actions that you want to do, that you can do, and that you can do right now]].
## Notes
- Triggers are things that prompt a response for people. Behavioral triggers prompt a sense of action.
- Cold triggers are prompts that you cannot immediately act upon.
- Hot triggers are prompts that you can act upon immediately.
- Take advantage of behavioral triggers and activate yourself to practice the habits you wish to build.
- [[Willingness to action is weakest when triggers or cold]].
- Willingness to action without force is motivation. Willingness to action with force is discipline.
- [[Motivation helps you move forward. Discipline keeps you from falling behind.]] Both are needed to overcome yourself today to become who you wish to become tomorrow.
- [[Make it easy to do the right thing. Make it hard to do the wrong thing.]]
- [[Make action actionable ASAP]].
- The world is designed to take our attention. Always pay yourself first before paying attention to the trivial.
- [[Your attention is currency. Often it's a good idea to pay yourself first.]]
- Cut off bad triggers to cut off bad habits at the source.
- Graduate important to cold triggers to hot triggers.
- "[[A behaviour needs to be appealing, it needs to be achievable, and it needs to be activated.]]"
- Cultivate actions that you want to do that you can do, and that you can do right now.
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