A piece of wisdom from
December 12, 2022 · Monday
The quote
“We have built the most distracting environment in history, then asked humans to do their best work inside it. The miracle is that any work gets done at all.”
— Cal Newport · Flow State
The concept
Atomic Habits
Tiny changes. Remarkable results.
You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems. Atomic Habits is the science of how identity, environment, and four laws of behaviour change combine to make small actions compound into a different person, …
A practice for today
When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of Atomic Habits. Tiny changes. Remarkable results.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 12.15
यस्मान्नोद्विजते लोको लोकान्नोद्विजते च यः। हर्षामर्षभयोद्वेगैर्मुक्तो यः स च मे प्रियः॥
“He from whom the world does not shrink, who does not shrink from the world, who is free from joy and envy, fear and agitation — such a person is dear to me.”
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