[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Productivity]] - People: [[Robert Greene]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gGZKBA_hyw --- ## Summary - [[You can never develop healthy habits unless you change your notion of pleasure]]. - [[True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you’re having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn’t grow you as a person.]] - [[Daily habits cultivate discipline within, empowering you to tackle greater challenges.]] - [[You rise to the level of your ambition. You fall to the level of your systems.]] ## Notes ### Active and passive habits - You already have daily habits. They're probably not good habits. - It's not just about building good habits, but also eliminating the bad ones. Become aware of the habits you want to build and remove. - There are 2 kinds of habits, ACTIVE and PASSIVE. - ACTIVE: Good, generally. Learning. - PASSIVE: Bad, generally. Addictions. You're doing them and they're not leading to anything. - Negative habits have a drain on you emotionally and are a drain on your brain. ### Development - It takes time to build the habits. Once you've done them enough times on a daily basis, they become routine; they become automatic. - Once habits become automatic, you can proceed to the next level; you can become more proficient. - The path towards automation is built upon daily baby steps. It happens slowly; to build active habits and to eliminate passive habits. - [[You rise to the level of your ambition. You fall to the level of your systems.]] - Take back wasted time and spend it on something you find productive or fulfilling; something that would help you better others, your environment, and/or yourself. ### Discipline - [[Daily habits cultivate discipline within, empowering you to tackle greater challenges.]] - Set deadlines. Set challenges. Set milestones. Set goals. - Challenge yourself. Force yourself to get into a higher gear to work harder day by day. - [[You can never develop healthy habits unless you change your notion of pleasure]]. - By actively taking on and completing challenges, you gain a sense of fulfillment and happiness far greater than the fleeting pleasure of time-wasting, passive activities. - Alter your sense of challenge. Alter your sense of discipline. Alter your sense of pleasure. - Try. Put in the work. Do more than you thought you could have. - [[The reward for good work is more work]]. - [[True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you’re having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn’t grow you as a person.]]