The School of Greatness · 2026-05-08 · 64 min · 13,364 words

The 3 Boring Habits That Built His First Million | Graham Stephan

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What would you say are the three habits that you started to develop early on when you didn't have a lot of money into becoming a millionaire? Could you think back on three specific habits that supported you from going from $50,000 to $100,000 a year to breaking into the first million? Yeah, I would say uh definitely consistency. Um, I was relentless in just keeping the same habits over and over and over again. Um, I would then say it was the focus of just I had one goal in mind of just like, I'm gonna do this one thing and do it really, really, really well.

That's all I wanted to do. Uh, and I would also say, um Saving money. I mean, I've lived really, really, really frugally. You obsessed about that?

Probably too frugal. I was too frugal. You were like every penny. Yeah. I can't go out and have an extra sushi.

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