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Dismissing self-discipline
For example: brushing your teeth every day doesn’t require any sort of forcing or obsessing, just dental hygiene standards you consider non-negotiable.
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Setting standards
Your quality of life improves when you set clear standards for how you live.
You gravitate back towards “so-so” in any area where your standards are unclear.
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Self-imposed rules aren’t constraints
They’re good decisions made in batches—they’re behavioral boundary markers you get to position yourself, through your own experience and wisdom.
Despite our fear of rules, the feeling of acting in accordance with a well-considered personal rule is actually a palpable feeling of p...
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Patterns in successful people
Wherever they excel, they tend to have personal rules that they take very seriously:
- Financially effective people tend to hold themselves to certain rules about money.
- Fit, energetic people tend to have personal rules about health.
- Productive peo...
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"Losing" freedom
We’ve all experienced the pain of living under unfair or unsympathetic rules, especially the ones imposed on us as children by teachers and grownups.
We fear the prospect of losing any of our freedom, and we tend to think of rules as devices that only constrain.
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