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**5) Find an Accountability Partner:**

- E.g., Whenever you fail your good habit (or do a bad habit), you must pay your accountability partner $10.

- Immediate reward + punishment helps rewire your brain to your desired state. This is similar to how scientists train animals in labs. It works.

**3) Two Minute Rule:**

- The habit you’re trying to build should be at least partially doable in just TWO MINUTES.

- E.g., your goal shouldn’t be to do 30 minutes of yoga every day — the goal should be to just take out the Yoga Mat and do AT LEAST 2 MINUTES of yoga.

**2) Understand why bad habits are so hard to break:**

- Every time you respond a particular way to a specific situation (Ex: you feel stressed → you start scrolling social media) your brain carves deeper/wider neural pathways to that response so that next time, it can respond more automatically.

This is James Clear.

He’s the NYT bestselling author of Atomic Habits, which has sold 20+ million copies worldwide.

Here are 5 of the most helpful lessons from the book: …
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**4) Manufacture Small, Daily Dopamine Hits:**

- Your brain hates delayed gratification. If it doesn’t feel some type of pleasure response soon, it’s going to associate the activity as something negative.

- Feed your brain little positive responses every time you successfully do your good habit.

**1) Prioritize SYSTEMS instead of GOALS:**

- Millions of people share the same goals (e.g., getting fit, building wealth), and yet most fail.

- Therefore, the differentiating factor that determines whether you win or lose is NOT “who has the best vision board for their goals”.

Distracting services like social media and TV aren't intrinsically harmful.

What's harmful is building a habit of constantly switching b/w meaningful work and mindless stimulation.

This trains your #brain to abort to mind-numbing activities at the slightest hint of a challenge.

It's NEVER been easier to start your own business.

You have:

- AI-powered automation
- Ultra-cheap / Freemium tools
- Ability to build an audience of thousands/millions for free

You don't need anyone's permission. Start today.

ormula for increasing your luck stat:

Luck =

Consistent daily action +
Wise direction +
Patience

The world of online business never stays still.

Procrastinating by way of "wanting to learn as much as possible" first makes your knowledge stale and obsolete.

Your time producing must exceed time consuming.

People quit the gym after 2wks because they don't see results.

People quit learning a language after 3mo because they can't hold a conversation.

Your requirement for insta-dopamine is severely limiting your future.

Kill your dopamine addiction, and winning becomes inevitable.

Dear algorithm, please connect me to future millionaires, entrepreneurs, and creators 🙏

You need VERY FEW things to start building an #audience:

- A laptop
- A skill (or an interest in a particular skill)
- 20 minutes a day learning about that skill
- 40 minutes a day writing about that skill

Ultimate tip to avoid the trap of analysis paralysis:

For every 1 hour you spend reading / researching / asking questions,

You must log 4 hours of productive work--

As in you produce something.

One of the greatest lies that society drills into you--

That at a certain point in your life, you lose control of what's happening to you, and your life becomes controlled by fate.

Few idioms drive me up the wall more than "If it was meant to be, it'll be.”

The goal isn't to avoid distractions completely.

It's to train yourself to resist entertaining them whenever boredom hits.

Consciously practice this every day for 90 days.

You will acquire superhuman levels of focus.

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What are the best ways to grow a following on #bluesky?

This platform seems to be pretty different than the others.

You gotta spend money to make money.

Step 1: slats
Step 2: ???
Step 3: profit

Why should people pay attention to you?

- How much do you KNOW about your skill / industry?
- How OFTEN do you post about your skill / industry?
- How DEEP does the content you post go?

Give people these 3 great reasons to pay attention to you.

Icebreakers like this are a form of modern torture.

Super interesting idea!

Don't worry about making the wrong decision.

Worry about taking too long to make a decision.

You are guaranteed to make mistakes; it's fine.

What's not fine is standing still.

I hit 20 followers on #BlueSky!

Next goal is 50! 🙏🏻

Thanks all for the support - let’s grow together!

Commenting to stay on erictok

Person A makes $500k/year working 60 hrs/week. They're obese and have no time to make friends or meet a spouse.

Person B makes $150k/year working 15 hrs/week. They're in the best shape of their life and spend plenty of time with friends / spouse / hobbies.

Who's richer?

100 people on a diet open a fridge.
- 50 have water in front, soda in back. (Group 1)
- 50 have soda in front, water in back. (Group 2)

Group 1 will be FAR more successful.

People choose products based on WHERE they are,
not WHAT they are.

Adjust your environment accordingly.

#psychology