[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Productivity]] - People: [[James Clear]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_IN64VV7w --- ## 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. ## Original ![[How to trigger good habits automatically-1.jpg]] ![[How to trigger good habits automatically-2.jpg]]