BITESIZE | The Surprising Secret to Making New Habits Stick & Effortlessly Achieving Your Goals | Shane Parrish #597
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Welcome to Feel Better, Live More Bite-size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 402 of the podcast with entrepreneur and best-selling author Shane Parrish. In this clip, Shane introduces the powerful notion of playing life on easy mode to put us in the best position for success. And we discuss why setting personal rules can be a powerful hack for creating healthy habits and effortlessly achieving our goals. If you look at sort of what I did was look at the titans of industry and the people who consistently get better results than everybody else.
And the one commonality they had that I've never heard anybody really talk about is they're never in a bad position. They're almost never forced by circumstances into doing something. They're almost never in a bad position where even though they get angry just like us, even though all these things, the the life happens to them the same way that it happens to us, they're always playing on easy mode. And so it seems easy for them, but they're always doing the things in advance they need to. to be playing on easy mode.
The fact that, you know, your your brother didn't sleep well doesn't change the fact that he's going to get up and do a race. But had he slept well, had he ate well, had he sort of concentrated on what are the things that I can do within my control that put me in the best possible position for this race, would have made the race maybe a different outcome. Maybe it wouldn't have made the race a different outcome, but it sounds like it would have. What are the things that you do in your life regularly that help you? play life in easy mode.
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